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BEING A DESCRIPTIVE AND 
ILLUSTRATED BOOK OF THE 

BOROUGH of QUEENS 

CITY of GREATER NEW YORK 

SETTING FORTH ITS MANY ADVANTAGES 
AND POSSIBILITIES AS A SECTION WHERE- 
IN TO LIVE, TO WORK AND SUCCEED 



Dedicated to that Great Public which is 
forever in quest of improved business 
conditions and better home surroundings 



ISSUED BY THE MANUFACTURING 
and INDUSTRIAL COMMITTEE of the 

CHAMBER OF COMMERCE 
of the BOROUGH OF QUEENS 

COMPILED AND ARRANGED BY WALTER I. WILLIS, Secretary 



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INTRODUCTION 




Y the act of consolidation of 1897, Queens County which 
was then comprised of the towns of Long Island City. 
Newtown, Flushing, Jamaica and Hempstead, some of 
which were settled as early as 1640, was amalgamated as 
the BOROUGH OF QUEENS, as part of the CITY OF 
GREATER NEW YORK. 
It is the purpose of this book to set forth the commercial, financial, in- 
dustrial and residential advantages and possibilities of the Borough of 
Queens considered by itself. It is not generally realized how great a city 
the Borough of Queens would be separated from its political connections 
with New York City. \Vith an area of 129 square miles, or 40 per cent, of 
the land area of Greater New York, it is about as large as the Boroughs of 
Manhattan, Bronx, and Brooklyn combined; as large as Philadelphia; and 
three times as large as Boston. With a population of 282,041 in 1910, it 
ranked 19th in size among the principal cities of the United States. Esti- 
mated population in 1912 is 334,297. 

Industrially, Queens ranked 4th among the cities and Boroughs of 
New York State and 17th among the principal cities of the United States as 
to the value of its manufactured products, their value in 1909 being $151,- 
000,000, and increased 314 per cent, within ten years. 

In 1911, there were 5,374 new buildings constructed within the Bor- 
ough at an estimated cost of $22,212,000, an increase of 46 per cent, over 
the year 1910. The records of the Board of Health show that Queens is 
healthy, for the death rate in Queens in 1911 was not only the lowest of 
any Borough in New York City, but of any of the first twenty cities in size 
in the United States. Its banking facilities are the best and its many banks 
have ample capital. Its schools and churches are unexcelled. Its transpor- 
tation facilities connecting with Manhattan and Brooklyn are excellent and 
millions of dollars are now being expended in improving these facilities. It 
has over 196 miles of natural water front and 20 miles of docks on the 
East River, Long Island Sound, Jamaica Bay, and Atlantic Ocean. The 
tonnage on Newtown Creek for 1910 was greater than the combined ton- 
nage of all the canals of the State of New York. 

Queens is a Borough of magnificent opportunities for the manufac- 
turer, the business man, or the home seeker. Its natural advantages are 
unsurpassed and its beauty unexcelled. 



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CONTENTS 



A PAGE 

Aldermen 49 

Areas 82 

Assemblymen 53 

Assessed Valuations 78 

Astoria Light H. & P. Co 65 

B 

Banks 87 

Barge Canal Terminals 63 

Beaches 29, 85 

Belmont Tunnel (See Steinway Tunnel) 

Board of Est. & App 49 

Borough Departments 52 

Borough Presidents 49 

Brooklyn, Q. Co. & Sub. Ry 47 

Brooklyn Heights Ry 47 

Brooklyn Rapid Transit Co 42 

Building Development 56 

C 

Cemeteries 108 

Chamber of Commerce 7 

Churches 103 

Clubs 88 

City Departments 49 

City Magistrates 55 

Citizens Water Co 68 

Congressmen 55 

County Offices 53 

Corona 27 

Connecting Railroad 40 

D 
Docks 63 

E 

East River 61 

East River Gas Co 65 

Electric Co.'s & Rates 64 

Elevated Railroads 42 

Elevated Ext. to Jamaica 42 

Elmhurst 26 

Express Rates S3 

F 

Factories IS 

Factory Sites 14 

Far Rockaway 29, 85 

Ferries 84 

Flushing 27 

Flushing Bay 61 

Creek 62 



PAGE 

Flushing Bay-Jam. Bay Canal 62 

Freight Rates 32 

Freight Terminals 63 

G 

Gas Companies & Rates 65 

Government 49 

H 

Health s9 

Highways . . 91 

Hotels 93 

I 

Interboro Rapid Transit Co 42 

J 

Jamaica 28 

" Bay 62 

Gas Company ... 65 

Water Supply Co 68 

K-L 

Labor Supply 13 

Libraries 95 

Local Boards 51 

Long Island City 26 

" Electric Ry 47 

Long Island Railroad 30 

Electrification 31 

Freight Rates & Traffic 32 

Passenger Traffic & Rates 33 

Tunnels 30 

Improvements 32 

Sunnyside Yards 30 

M 

Manhattan & Queens Traction Corp 46 

Manufacturing & Industrial Statistics... 13 

Mortgage Companies S6 

Municipal Court 55 

N 

New York & Queens Electric Light S.- 
Power Co 64 

New York & Queens Co. Ry 47 

" " " Gas Co 65 

New York & Long Island Tract Co 47 

New York & North Shore Tract Co 47 

Newspapers 90 

Newtown Creek 60 

Newtown Gas Co 65 



Chamber of Commerce of the Borough of Queens. 



O PACE 
Ocean Electric R. R 47 

P 

Parks 75 

Pennsylvania Station 38 

Population 7J 

Post Offices 9S 

Public Halls 99 

Public Service Commission 49 

Q 

Queens Boulevard 80 

Queensboro Bridge 66 

Queensboro Bridge Plaza 43 

Queens Gas & Elec. Co 64, 65 

Queens Co. Water Co 68 

R 

Rapid Transit 42 

Real Estate Development 26 

Residential Advantages 24 

Richmond Hill Gas Light Co 65 

Rockaway Beach 29. S5 

Roosevelt Avenue Route 42 



S PAGE 

Schools 106 

Sewers lln 

Senator (State) 53 

Steinway Tunnel 42, 48 

Surface Lines 46 

Sunnyside Yards 30 

T 

Tax Rate 79 

Telephone Rates 101 

Third Avenue Bridge Co 46 

Transportation Facilities 13 

Trolley Lines 46 

Topographical Map 70 

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Urban Water Co 6S 

W 

Water Front Developments 59 

" Supply 68 

Woodhaven Gas Co 65 

Water Supply Co 68 

Woodside 25, 44 



ADVERTISERS 



Adikes, J. & T. 

Adee, F., & Co. 

Bank of Long Island 

Bloodgood, Wm. O., & Co. 

Brooklyn, Eastern Dist. Term. Co. 

Brooklyn Eagle Almanac, 1913. 

Brooklyn Eagle Job Print Dept. 

Crabbe, Charles 

Chase, Roberts & Co. 

Courtney Development Co. 

Cord Meyer Development Co. 

Degnon Realty & Terminal Co. 

Eagle Storage & Warehouse Co. 

Froehling & Saxelbye 

First Nat'l Bank, Corona 

First Mortgage Guar. Co. 

Gillespie, E. A. 

Gillespie, T. A. 

Halleran Agency 

Heck, Wm. S. 

Home Title Ins. Co. 

Homeyer, Rich. A. 

James & Hawkins 

Jump House Wrecking Co. 

Kneer, Jos. 

Keiner- Williams Stamping Co. 

L. I. Bond & Mortgage Co. 

Long Island R. R. 

L. I. City Savings 

McKnight Realtv Co. 

Man, A. H. 

Metropolitan Dredging Co. 



N. Y. & East River Ferry Co. 

Nat'l Bridge Works 

National Sugar Refining Co. 

N. Y. & Queens Elec. L. & P. Co. 

N. Y. Title Ins. Co. 

Palmer-Singer Auto Co. 

Petry, John W. 

Payntar, W. Elmer 

Queens County Hygieia Ice Co. 

Queens Court Realtv Co. 

Queensboro Corp. 

Queens County Trust Co. 

Ryan, George J. 

Roscoe Lumber Co. 

Realtv Notice Corp. 

Rae, Wm. P. 

Roth, Paul 

Rickert-Firflav Realtv Co. 

Rvan, A. M.' 

Read & Morrill 

Scutt, F. W., & Co. 

Smith, Thos. J. 

Smith, L. C. L. 

Shore Acres Realty Co. 

Stuebner, George L. 

Steinway Piano Co. 

Title Guarantee & Trust Co. 

Tubes Realty & Terminal Co. 

U. S. Title Guarantee Co. 

U. S. Metal Products Co. 

Willev, C. A. 

Wheeler Bros. 



Chamber of Commerce of the Borough of Queens. 



Chamber of Commerce of the Borough of 

Queens 




HE Chamber of Commerce of the Borough of Queens was 
incorporated in April, 1911, with 55 charter members, 
and in little over a year has more than doubled 
its original membership. Its object is to promote 
a unity of interest and action of every section of the 
Borough of Queens for the good of the whole Borough 
and to promote the commercial, financial, industrial, resi- 
dential and general growth of the Borough. Its membership includes repre- 
sentative men from every section of the Borough who live in that section or 
have business interests there, whether manufacturers, bankers, merchants, 
lawyers, builders, contractors, real estate developers or professional men. 

Annual dues of $50.00 are charged, creating a fund to employ a per- 
manent secretary, maintain offices and keep complete records of all large 
improvements throughout the Borough, such as rapid transit extensions, 
development of the waterfront, improvements of the main highways, legis- 
lation affecting the interests of the Borough, compilation of data showing 
the commercial growth and possibilities of Queens, and the introduction of 
new factories into the Borough. 

The officers of the Chamber for the ensuing year are: 



President, 
Vice-President, 

lite-President, 

Treasurer, 

Secretary, 



William H. Williams, 
Robert W. Higbie, 
John H. Prall, 
William J. Hamilton, 
Walter I. Willis, 



Long Island City 

Jamaica 

Elmluirst 

Corona 

Flushing 



The offices of the Chamber are located in the Queens Plaza Court 
Building, Queensboro Bridge Plaza (North), Long Island City. In ad- 
dition to the Secretary's office a large club room has been furnished suitable 
for meetings of commttees for either social or business purposes. 

Adjoining the rooms of the Chamber of Commerce is the restaurant 
of the Queens Plaza Court Luncheon Club, the members of the Chamber 
being entitled to the privileges of this Luncheon Club. 

The principal committees of the Chamber to whom its various activ- 
ities are referred are as follows: 



Term Expires 1913 
William F. Wyckoff, 
Edward A. McDougall, 
Louis Windmuller, 
A 1 rick H. Man, 
Charles G. Mever 



Board of Directors. 

Term Expires 191+ 
J. Harvey Smedley, 
Richmond Weed, 
Henry A. Cassebeer, 
John Adikes, 
William J. Hamilton 



Term Expires 1915 
William H. Williams, 
Robert W. Higbie, 
John H. Prall, 
Frederick Russell, 
William Brewster 



8 Chamber of Commerce of the Borough of Queens. 

Executive and Membership Committee. 

William H. Williams John H. Prall Wm. F. Wyckoff 

Robert W. Higbie Wm. J. Hamilton Wm. Brewster 

Richmond Weed 

Transit Committee. 

John Adikes, Chairman 
E. A. MacDougall, F. DeHass Simonson, (ieorge J. Ryan, 

Joel Fowler, Kingsley L. Martin, Stnard Hirscliman 

Commerce Committee. 

Frederick Russell, Chairman 
Clarence Ludlum, Michael J. Degnon, Alex. S. Williams 

Edward M. Ward, Charles G. Meyer, 

Manufacturing and Industrial Committee. 

J. A. Wigmore, Chairman 
A. L. Langdon, H. P. Read, Theo. Steinwav, 

Wm. H. Dahmar., John J. Halleran C. G. M. Thomas 

Legislation Committee. 

Henry S. Johnston, Chairman 
Alvan T. Payne, E. N. L. Young, Burton Thompson 

Arbitration Committee. 

Louis Windmuller, Chairman 
John W. Weed, Wm. A. Jones, Jr., Clarence Edwards, 

James A. McDonald 

Highways Committee (Special). 

G. Howland Leavitt, Chairman 
Joseph Dykes, Eben Griffiths, Henry J. Mullen, 

Andrew McTigue 

Queensboro Bridge Approach (Special). 

John D. Crimmins, Chairman 
Timothy L. Woodruff. Wm. Brewster, Samuel Bloomingdale 

W. Elmer Payntar, H. P. Williams, 

Queens Boulevard (Special). 

Alrick H. Man, Chairman 
M. J. Budlong, John M. Demarest, Charles E. Covert, 

F. W. Scutt 



Building Code (Special). 



Treadwell D. Carpenter, Chairma-i 
Robt. B. Austin, |. M. Briggs, E. A. Gillespie, 

Fred. G. Randall 




Club Room. Chamber of Commerce. 




Sei retary's Office. Chamber of Commerce. 



io Chamber of Commerce of the Borough of Queens. 

List of Members of the Chamber. 

Name Address Business 

John Adikes Jamaica Flour and Feed Merchant. 

Charles Lee Andrews ..Flushing Member of New York Stock Exchange. 

Robert B. Austin Jamaica President, Queens County Trust Co. 

J. H. Balantine Long Island City .. President, Neptune Meter Co. 

Henry L. Bogert Flushing Lawyer. 

William D. Bloodgood. .Long Island City. .Real Estate. 

Sam'I J. Bloomingdale. . .New York Bloomingdale Bros., Department Store. 

Herman Broesel Long Island City. . I'reasurer, Simplex Automobile Co. 

John C. Brackenridge .. . . Richmond Hill .... Consulting Engineer. 

William Brewster Long Island City.. Pres. k Director, Brewster & Co., (Automobiles). 

J. Mead Briggs New York President, Queens Court Realty Co. 

M. J. Budlong New York President, Packard Motor Car Co. of New York. 

Alex. S. Burns Woodside Real Estate. 

Henrv L. Caiman Long Island City. . Varnish Manufacturer (Emil Caiman & Co.) 

Treadwell D. Carpenter. Jamaica President, Carpenter Lumber Co. 

Henrv A. Cassebeer Long Island City. . President, Cassebeer Pharmical Co. 

Theodore Cassebeer ....Long Island City .. Cassebeer Pharmical Co. 

James E. Clonin Astoria Clonin & Messenger (Coal, Wood, etc.) 

Ernest V. Connolly Long Island City. .President, Commercial Nat'l Bank, L. I. City. 

Charles E. Covert Jamaica Vice-President, U. S. Title & Guarantee Co. 

Charles Crabbe Far Rockaway ....Lumber Merchant. 

Henry L. Crandell Jamaica Vice-President, Bank of Long Island. 

John D. Crimmins New York. .... Vice-President, N. Y. Title Insurance Co. 

William H. Dahman. . . . Woodhaven Superintendent, Lalance & Grojean Mfg. Co. 

Joseph P. Day New York Real Estate. 

Michael J. Degnon Jamaica President, Degnon Realty & Terminal Co. 

John M. Demarest Forest Hills General Mgr., Sage Foundation Homes Co. 

Joseph Dykes Flushing Vice-President, Bank of Long Island. 

Samuel Eichen New York Real Estate. 

Clarence Edwards Newtown Lawyer. 

Jesse F. Ellsworth Long Island City . Mgr. Astoria Branch Corn Exchange Bank. 

Leander B. Faber Jamaica Vice-Pres., Queens Co. Trust Co., Lawyer. 

Charles E. Finlay Great Neck President Aetna National Bank. 

Joel Fowler Richmond Hill. ...Real Estate, President Hillside Bank. 

Lindley M. Franklin. ... Flushing Pres., Queens County Savings Bank. 

Robert D. Garden Long Island City . .President, Harrolds Motor Car Co. (Pierce Arrow 

Cars.) 

Earl A. Gillespie Woodhaven Lumber Merchant. 

Eben Griffiths Jamaica L. I. Editor, Brooklyn Daily Eagle. 

Col. H. A. Guinzburg. . .New York Treasurer., I. B. Kleinert Rubber Co. 

John J. Halleran Flushing Tax Commissioner, City of New York. 

Julius Harder Bayside Architect. 

Wm. J. Hamilton Flushing Pres., First Nat'l Bank of Corona, Real Estate. 

Jarvis S. Hicks Long Island City. Mgr. Jackson Ave. Branch, Corn Exchange Bank. 

Robert W. Higbie Jamaica President, Robt. W. Higbie Lumber Co. 

Stuard Hirschman New York Real Estate. 

Burt Jay Humphrey . . . .Jamaica Lawyer, County Judge. 

Clinton R. James Brooklyn President, N. Y. Title Insurance Co. 

Henry S. Johnston Elmhurst Pres., H. S. Johnston Drug Co. 

William A. Jones, Jr.. . .Richmond Hill .... Lawyer. 

Henry S. Kearney New York Real Estate. 

Hon. John J. Kindred. .. Long Island City. .Kindred's Sanitarium, ex-Congressman. 

Fred J. Lancaster Long Island City. . President, Courtney Development Co. 

Averett L. Langdon . . . .New York Traffic Mgr. & Gen'l Freight Agt. of the L. I. R. R. 

Townsend Lawrence Flushing Member N. Y. Stock Exchange. 

John Anderson Leach.. Long Island City. . Lawyer, City Magistrate. 

G. Howland Leavitt. .. .Flushing Supt. of Highways, Borough of Queens. 

Milton L'Ecluse Great Neck Real Estate. 

Clarence A. Ludkim ....Jamaica Vice.-Pres., Home Insurance Co. 

John R. MacArthur New York Vice-Pres., MacArtbur Bros. Contracting Co. 

James A. Macdonald .... Flushing Pres. Central Park, North & East River Railway. 

Edward A. MacDougall . Flushing Vice-Pres. & Gen'l Mgr. Queensboro Corporation. 

Andrew McTigue Far Rockaway ....Real Estate & Insurance. 

James Macbeth Jamaica Director, Queens County Trust Co. 



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Same Address Business 

Alrick H. Man Richmond Hill ... . Lawyer. 

Kingslev L. Martin Flushing Vice-Pres., Foundation Co. of New York. 

Philip K. Meynen Jamaica Real Estate & Mortgage Loans. 

Charles G. Meyer Bayside Secretary, Cord Meyer Development Co. 

Harrison S. Moore Flushing Lawyer. 

Henry J. Mullen Jamaica Contractor. 

Frances J. Oakes Flushing President, Oakes Mfg. Co., (Chemicals). 

George H. Uldring ...Long Island City. Mgr. Plaza Branch, Corn Exchange Bank. 

Alvan T. Payne Jamaica Lawyer. 

W. Elmer Payntar Long Island City.. Real Estate. 

Gaston Plaintiff New York Mgr., Ford Automobile Co. 

E. C. Potter, Jr Long Island Citv. . Vice-Pres., Brooklyn Eastern District Terminal Co. 

John H. Prall Elmhurst Member of N. Y. Stock Exchange. 

Andrew J. Provost Richmond Hill ... .Engineer, firm of Lederle & Provost. 

William P. Rae Jamaica President, Jamaica Hillcrest Co. 

Fred G. Randall Elmhurst Sales Manager, Queensboro Corporation. 

John W. Rapp College Point ....Pres., U. S .Metal Products Company. 

Henry P. Read Brooklyn President, National Foundry Co. 

Sol Richman Long Island City..Supt., Nat'I Enameling & Stamping Co. 

E. J. Rickert Great Neck President, Rickert-Finlay Realty Co. 

Walter Roberts Long Island City..Gen'I Mgr., Wm. Bradley & Son (Stone Yard). 

Clinton T. Roe Whitestone Lawyer. 

Edward Roche Far Rockaway ...Real Estate and Contractor. 

George J. Ryan Flushing Real Estate and Insurance. 

Frederick Russell Great Neck Pres., Russell Foundry & Machine Co. 

Rudolph J. Schaefer . . . .New York Pres., N. Y. State Brewers Ass'n. 

Frank W. Scutt Hollis Real Estate & Mortgage Loans, Jamaica. 

Louis G. Shields Great Neck Real Estate. 

F. DeHass Simonson. .. .Elmhurst Real Estate. 

Charles Simonson Elmhurst Real Estate. 

C. A. Singer Long Island City.. Pres., Palmer-Singer Mfg. Co. (Automobiles.) 

J. Harvey Smedley Long Island City.. Secy, L. I. City Savings Bank. 

Gustav J. Staats New York Contractor & Plumber. 

Charles H. Steinway ...Long Island City. . President, Steinway Piano Co. 

Theodore E. Steinway. . .Long Island City.. Pres., Astoria & Steinway Homestead Co. 

Henry S. Story Woodside Contractor. 

Charies G. M. Thomas. .Flushing Vice-Pres., & Gen'l Mgr. N. Y. & Queens Electric 

Light & Power Co. 

Burton Thompson New York Real Estate. 

Benjamin C. Vandewater Long Island City.. Mgr. Borden Ave. Branch Corn Exchange Bank. 

Andrew J. Van Siclen. . Jamaica Coal & Wood Merchant. 

Edward M. Ward Richmond Hill ...Mgr. Ward & Co., L. 1. City (Ship Yards). 

John W. Weed Flushing Lawyer. 

Richmond Weed Flushing Lawyer. 

George H. Wicke Richmond Hill ...Vice-Pres., Wm. Wicke Ribbon Co. 

J. A. Wigmore New York Pres., Tubes Realtv & Terminal Co. 

C. A. Willey Flushing Pres., C. A. Willev Co., (Varnish). 

Alex. S. Williams Long Island City.. Pres., Astoria Veneer Mills. 

Harrv Pushae Williams. Flushing Lawyer, Treas., First Mortgage Guarantee Co. 

William H. Williams. . .Long Island City.. Pres., First Mortg. Guarantee Co.; Treas., Astoria 

Veneer Mills & Dock Co. 
Louis Windmuller Woodside Cotton Merchant, Direc. Title Guarantee & Trust 

Company. 

Timothy L. Woodruff .. .Jamaica President, Jamaica Estates. 

George E. Woods New York Engineer, Astoria, Light Heat & Power Co. 

William F. Wyckoff Jamaica Lawyer. 

William T. Yale Jamaica Vice-Pres. of Yale Land Co. 

Eugene N. L. Young Long Island Citv. .Lawyer. 

Willis H. Young Jamaica ...President, L. I. Bond & Mortgage Co. 




Dining Room, Queens Plaza Court Luncheon Club. 




Kitchen, Queens Plaza Luncheon Club. 



Chamber of Commerce of the Borough of Oueens. 



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Manufacturing and Industries 

Queens Borough as a Manufacturing Center. 

HE Borough of Queens has so many advantages that it seems 

to be pre-ordained to be a manufacturing center, and is 

without doubt destined to be the greatest industrial center 

of the continent. Considered as a city by itself, it would 

rank 17//; among the principal cities of the United States, 

in the value of its manufactured products, according to the 

last official census taken by the Department of Commerce 

and Labor of the United States Government. In the State of New York, 

it ranked -\th, being exceeded only by the Boroughs of Manhattan and 

Brooklyn and the City of Buffalo. 

The value of its manufactured products in 1909 was $151,680,000 
which was an increase of 314 per cent, in 10 years, a greater per cent, in- 
crease than any of the large cities of the United States, and was equal to 
the combined products of the principal manufacturing cities of the State 
of Connecticut — New Haven, Hartford, and Bridgeport. 

The number of establishments increased at the same time from 395 
to 771, or 95 per cent. 

The average number of wage earners increased from 10,684 to 
23,891 in the past 10 years, and the capital invested increased from $67,- 
420,000 to $145,307,000. 

Why This Enormous Growth? 

Greatest Market in the World. — Because the Borough of 
Queens is part of the greatest market of the world — the City of Greater 
New York — the financial center and the focal point for the transaction of 
business and the distribution of commodities for the United States. The 
home consumption of manufactured goods of all kinds is enormous. 
Everything to eat or to wear, or that can contribute to the pleasure, health 
or comfort of mankind has a ready sale or quick distribution in New York 
City and vicinity for within a radius of 30 miles of New York City 7 1-2 
per cent, of the population of the United States lives. New York City 
handles 57 per cent, of the exports and 37 per cent, of the imports and 90 
per cent, of the passenger traffic of the nation. 

Labor Supply. — Because the Borough of Queens has an unlimited 
supply of labor from a population of over 6,000,000 within easy traveling 
distance, including the cheapest labor of the newly arrived immigrant to 
the highest skilled labor. The Borough of Queens offers advantages su- 
perior to any other section of greater New York for the housing of em- 



14 Chamber of Commerce of the Borough of Queens. 

ployees of factories. For those that prefer to live within walking distance 
of their work small houses and apartments can be had in quiet locations at 
reasonable cost or rent. Electricity, gas and water are everywhere pro- 
vided. Sewers are installed, the best schools, churches of all denomina- 
tions, beaches, parks, and theatres and all requisites for pleasure are here. 

Transportation Facilities. — The Borough of Queens has better 
facilities for the delivery of supplies and materials than any other Borough 
of New York City can hope to have ; it has over 70 miles of railroads, some 
two, some four and six tracks, within its borders that can be extended in 
any direction; it has 200 miles of natural water frontage and over 20 miles 
of docks and piers with deep water of the Atlantic Ocean, Jamaica Bay, 
East River, Newtown Creek, and Flushing Bay and River; its freight rate 
to or from points 100 miles outside of New York City is the same as that of 
all the other Boroughs of the City so that the manufacturer can ship as 
cheaply as from the Borough of Manhattan itself. The construction of 
the Connecting Railroad by the New York, New Haven and Hartford 
Railroad and the Pennsylvania Railroad will give an all-rail connection 
with every part of the country. Its various freight terminals located on 
the East River and other sections of the Borough give unsurpassed ship- 
ping facilities. 

Factories Seeking New Locations. — New factories are locating 
in the Borough of Queens every day. 

( 1st) From other cities desiring to be near the greatest market as 
well as the greatest center of supply of raw materials. 

(2nd) The existing factories in New York City that require larger or 
cheaper manufacturing sites. 

(3rd) The growth and enlargement of its own industrial plants due 
to the excellent manufacturing conditions within the Borough. 

Factorv Sites. — The manufacturer who has a good location and is 
surrounded by favorable conditions, has an advantage over his competitors. 
The Borough of Queens offers a wide range of choice in location suitable 
for manufacturing purposes. Numerous waterfront sites are to be had 
along the East River and Newtown Creek with a depth sufficient to ac- 
commodate vessels of large draught at prices much lower than any other 
waterfront property in the city. Along the Pennsylvania-Long Island 
Railroad, there are thousands of acres of land in all sections of the Borough 
where sidings may be had, bringing cars to the factory door, saving all ex- 
pense for carting and giving flat rates. Other locations within short hauling 
distance of both railroad and piers are to be had at attractive prices, vary- 
ing according to location, but always far below in price the same class of 
property anywhere else in New York City. 



Chamber of Commerce of the Borough of Queens. 15 

While every encouragement and assistance possible will be given by 
the Chamber of Commerce of the Borough of Queens to the new industries 
desiring to locate in this Borough, absolutely no inducements in the form 
of free sites, free taxes, or cash bonuses can be offered. 

Rank of Manufacturing Cities of United States — 1909. 



City Rani 

New York, N. Y 1 

Chicago, III 2 

Philadelphia, Pa 3 

Brooklyn, N. Y 4 

St. Louis, Mo 5 

Cleveland, 6 

Detroit, Mich 7 

Pittsburg, Pa 8 

Boston, Mass 9 

Buffalo, N. Y 10 

Milwaukee, Wis 11 

Newark, N. J._ 12 

Cincinnati, Ohio 13 

Baltimore, Md 14 

Minneapolis, Minn 15 

Kansas Citv, Kans 16 

QUEENS BOROUGH.. 17 

San Francisco, Oal IS 

Jersey City, N. J 19 

Indianapolis, Ind 20 

Providence, R. 1 21 

Rochester, N. Y 22 

Louisville, Ky 23 

South Omaha, Neb 24 

Youngstown, Ohio 25 



Value of 


Per Cent. 


No. of 


Avge. No. 




Manufactured 


Increase 


establish- 


of Wage 


Capital 


Products, 1909 


1899-1909 


ments 


Earners 


Invested 


$2,092,693,000* 


73.0 


25,938 


544,002 


$1,364,353,000 


1,281,171,000 


61.0 


9,656 


293,977 


971,841,000 


746,076,000 


43.5 


8,379 


251,884 


691,397,000 


417,223,000 


33.0 


5,218 


123,883 


362,337,000 


328,495,000 


69.5 


2,667 


S7,371 


269,392,000 


271,961,000 


95.0 


2,148 


84,728 


227,397,000 


252,992,000 


195.0 


2,036 


81,011 


190,125,000 


243,454,000 


11.5 


1,659 


67,474 


2S3, 139,000 


23 7,457,000 


107.0 


3,155 


69,637 


175,182,000 


21S, 804,000 


107.0 


1,753 


51,412 


193,041,000 


208,324,000 


83.0 


1,764 


59,502 


219,391,000 


2112,511,000 


78.5 


1,858 


59,955 


154,233,000 


I'M, 316,000 


37.3 


2,184 


60,192 


150,254,000 


1S6,978,000 


3S.4 


2,502 


71,444 


162,437,000 


165,405,000 


75.0 


1,102 


26,962 


90,382,000 


164,081,000 


105. il 


165 


12,294 


42,817,000 


151,680,000 


314.0 


771 


23,891 


145,307,000 


133,041,000 


24.3 


1,796 


28,244 


133,824,000 


128,775,000 


76.5 


745 


25,454 


79,794,000 


126,522,000 


113.5 


855 


31,813 


76,497,000 


12ii,241,000 


66.0 


1,080 


46,3S1 


118,512,000 


112,676,000 


89.0 


1,203 


39,108 


95,708,000 


1(11,284,000 


68.4 


903 


27,023 


79,437,000 


92,436,000 


33.0 


71 


6,306 


19,877,000 


81,271,000 


139.0 


115 


10,498 


S7,160,000 



* Includes all five Boroughs. 

RANK OF CITIES IN NEW YORK STATE IN 1909. 

AS TO 

Total Value of Manufactured Products 
from united states census 



Increase 



Rank City 1909 

1 Manhattan and the Bronx $1,431,089,000 

2 Brooklyn 417,223,000 

3 Buffalo 218,804,000 

4 QUEENS BOROUGH 151,680,000 

5 Rochester 112,676,000 

6 Yonkers 59,334,000 

7 Syracuse 49,444,000 

8 Bronx Borough 42,000,000 

9 Schenectady 38,165,000 

10 Trov 37,980,000 

11 Utica 31,199,000 

12 Richmond Borough 29,701,000 

13 Niagara Falls 28,652,000 

14 Albany 22,826,000 

15 Amsterdam 22,449,000 



Value of Products 




1904 


1899 


1904 


1899 


1909 


1909 


$1,043,251,000 


$810,807,000 


37 


76 


373,463,111111 


313,617,000 


12 


33 


147,378,000 


105,627,000 


48 


107 


92,941,000 


35,427,000 


63 


314 


82,747,000 


59,669,000 


39 


89 


33,548,000 


17,304,000 


17 


243 


34,000,000 


26,546,000 


43 
15 


86 


33,0S4,451 


17,605.000 


117 


31,861,000 


28,739,000 


19 


32 


22,880,000 


16,479,000 


36 


89 


16,867,000 


13,017,000 


76 


128 


16,915,786 


8,540,000 


69 


235 


20,208,715 


17,269,000 


13 


32 


15,007,000 


10,643,000 


49 


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Factories 



"Made in 

The Goods and The 
Acousticons, Massacons and Dicto - 
graphs. 
General Acoustic Co., Jamaica, 
L. I. 

Aeroplanes. 

Moisant Aeroplane Co., Winfield, 
L. I. 

Agate and Enamelware. 

Nat'l Enameling & Stamping Co., 

L. I. City. 
Lalance & Grosjean Mfg. Co., 

Woodhaven, L. I. 

Architectural Iron. 

Richey, Brown & Donald, Bush- 

wick Junction. 
Brooklyn Foundry Co., L. I. City. 

Asbestos Pipe Covering. 

N. Y. Asbestos Mfg. Co., L. I. 

City. 

Automobile Accessories. 

Metal Stamping Co., L. I. City. 
Prest-O-Lite Co., L. I. City. 
Goodyear Tire Co., L. I. City. 

Automobiles. 

General Vehicle Co., L. I. City 

(Electric). 
Palmer-Singer Mfg. Co., L. I. 

City. 
Brewster & Co., L. I. City — (De- 
launev-Bellville.) 

Automobiles (Service Plants). 
Ford Auto Co., L. I. City. 
Edwards Motor Co., L. I. City. 
American Locomotive Co., L. I. 

City. 



Queens." 

ir Manufacturers. 

Packard Motor Car, L. I. City. 
Simplex Auto. Co., L. I. City. 
Harold Motor Car Co., L. I. 

City ( Pierce-Arrow) . 
Lozier Motor Car Co., L. I. City. 
Benz Motor Car Co., L. I. City. 

Automobile Bodies. 

Brewster & Co., L. I. City. 

Bags and Bagging. 

Young & Metzner, L. I. City. 
Columbia Paper Bag Co., L. I. 

City. 

Beds. 

L. I. Bedding Co., L. I. City. 

Billiard and Pool Tables. 

Brunswick, Balke Collender Co., 
L. I. City. 

Blue Vitrol and Refiners of Copptr. 
Nichols Copper Co., L. I. City. 

Boats. 

D. Costaghola & Co., L. I. City. 

Geo. J. Stelz, College Point. 

Powells Cove Boat Co., College 
Point. 

L. I. Machine, Marine and Con- 
struction Co., L. I. City. 

Boiler Tanks. 

Chris. Cunningham, L. I. City. 

Bottles and Stoppers. 

Bottlers and Mfgrs. Supply Co., 
L. I. City. 

Braids. 

Barthels Mfg. Co., Glendale, L. I. 



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Bread, Rolls and Fancy Cooking. 
Loose-Wiles Biscuit Co., L. I. City. 
Manhattan Steam Bakery, L. I. 

City. 
Benjamin Moore, Astoria, L. I. 
Shultz Bread Co., Jamaica, L. I. 

Brewers (Beer) . 

Karsch Brewing Company, College 
Point, L. I. 

Consumers Brewing Co., Wood- 
side, L. I. 

Bronzeware, Ornaments, etc. 
Tiffany Studios, Corona, L. I. 

Button (Machinery) . 

Defiance Button Machine Co., L. I. 
City. 

Buttons (Pearl). 

F. A. Albrecht, Winfield, L. I. 
Empire City Pearl Button Works, 
L. I. City. 

Candy and Chewing Gum. 
Bon Bon Co., L. I. City. 
Franklin's Inc., L. I. City. 



Carriages. 

John Halley, L. I. City. 
Brewster & Co., L. I. City. 

Car Signs. 

Hunter Illuminating Car Sign Co., 
Flushing, L. I. 
Caps. 

Spear & Co., Woodhaven, L. I. 
Castings. 

Pirkl Foundry Co., L. I. City. 

Celluloid Novelties. 

Morrison & Sons, College Point, 
L. I. 
Cement Blocks and Paragon Plaster. 
Jamaica Paragon Plaster Co., 

Jamaica. L. I. 
Rockaway Concrete & Lumber Co., 
Far Rockaway, L. I. 

Chemical Products. 

General Chemical Co., Laurel 
Hill, L. I. 
Chicory. 

Heinr. Franck Sohne Co., 
Flushing, L. I. 




Steinway & Sons Piano Factory, Ditmas Avenue, Long Island City. 



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Chamber of Commerce of the Borough of Queens. 



Chocolate Machinery. 

Samuel Carey, Glendale, L. I. 

Cigars and Tobacco. 

~H. Worms & Co., Winfield. L. I. 
Prospero DeNobili & Co., L. I. 

City. 
Metropolitan Tobacco Co., Ja- 
maica. 
Concrete Products. 

Concrete Products Co., Flushing, 
L. I. 
Cooperage. 

John Delaney, L. I. City. 
S. Briggs, L. I. City. 

Coopers. 

National Cooperage Co., 
Bushwick Junction. 

Copper Refining. 

Nichols Copper Co., L. I. City. 

Creosoting. 

Eppinger & Russell, L. I. City. 
Dictograph. 

General Acoustic Co., Jamaica, 
L. I. 
Dirt Cleanser, Serub-ez-Soap Powdt r. 

Domestic Mfg. Co., L. I. City. 

Disinfectants. 

West Disinfecting Co., L. I. City. 

Perfection Chemical Co., Flushing 
L. I. 
Doors, Sash and Lumber. 

Kreamer Brothers, College Point. 

Drop Hammers, Etc. 

Merrill Brothers, Bushwick Junc- 
tion. 

Drag gists Supplies. 

American Druggists Syndicate, L. 

I. City. 
Cassebeer Pharmacy, L. I. City. 



Dyes. 

Oakes Manufacturing Co., L. I. 

City. 
Electric Welding. 

Randall Electric Welding Co., L. 

1. City. 
Universal Elec. Welding Steel Co. 

L. I. City. 
Welded Steel and Wheel Co., L. 

I. City. 
Fertilizer. 

Armour Fertilizer Works, L. I. 

City. 
American Agricultural Chemical 

Co., L. I. City. 

Fire Extinguishers. 

Auto Fire Protection Co., White- 
stone, L. I. 
Fireproof Doors, Etc. 

Manhattan Fireproof Door Co., 

Winfield, L. I. 
U. S. Metal Products Co., College 
Point, L. I. 
Flower Pots, Pottery, Etc. 

A. H. Hews & Co., Long Island 
City. 
Furniture. 

Acme Furniture Co., Woodside, 

L. I. 
Prairie Grass Furniture Co., Glen- 
dale, L. I. 
Glass. 

Tiffany Furnaces, Corona, L. I. 
Gleason-Tiebout Glass Co., Bush- 
wick Junction. 

Glass Blasting. 

American Blast Co., Glendale, 
L. I. 
Glue. 

Preston Fertilizer Works, L. I. 
City. 



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Handkerchiefs. 

L. N. Levinson, Ozone Park. 
Hals. 

Bornn Hat Co., Glendale, L. I. 
Ice Cream Cans — Tanks. 

Keiner-Williams Stamping Co., 
Richmond Hill. 
Iron Channels. 

Irving Iron Works, L. I. City. 

Iron Buckets. 

G. L. Stuebner, L. I. City. 
Iron Castings. 

Richmond Hill Foundry Co., Rich- 
mond Hill. 
Iron Sponge. 

Greenpoint Chemical Works, L. I. 
City. 
Iron, Steel, Beams, Girders. 

National Bridge Works, L. I. City. 
Ravitch Brothers, L. I. City. 
Iron Tanks. 

Collins Iron Works, L. I. City. 
Jewelry Boxes. 

Oscar Trilsch Co., Whitestone, 
L. I. 
Knit Goods. 

Ardsley Knitting Mills, L. I. City. 
Leather Goods. 

I. Ravitch, Ozone Park. 
A. L. Reed Co., Richmond Hill, 
L. I. 
Life Boats. 

Welin Davit & Lane & DeGroot 
Co., L. I. City. 
Lime Plaster and Plaster Board. 
Wotherspoon Plaster Mills, L. I. 
City. 
Lubricating Oil. 

Wm. P. Miller Co., Long Island 
City. 



Lumber. 

C. W. Copp, Flushing, L. I. 
Roscoe Lumber Co., L. I. City. 
E. A. Gillespie, Woodhaven, L. I. 
Carpenter & Co., Jamaica. 
W. C. Haugaard, Richmond Hill. 
Jump House Wrecking Co., L. I. 

City. 
Charles Crabbe, Far Rockaway. 
Wm. Schonecke, Hammels, L. I. 

Machinery. 

Astoria Machine Works, L. I. 

City. 
Russell Foundry and Machine 

Works, L. I. City. 
Reilly Engineering Co., College 

Point. 

Macaroni and Spaghetti. 

Atlantic Macaroni Co., L. I. City. 
Rudolph Rey, Bushwick Junction. 

Malt Extracts. 

Emken Chemical Co., L. I. City. 

Malt Roasting. 

N. Y. Malt Roasting Co., L. I. 
City. 

Marble and Cut Stone. 

Astoria Marble Sawing Mills, L. 

I. City. 
Wm. Bradley & Son, L. I. City. 

Marble Works. 

Yoska, Foelsch & Sidlo, L. I. Citv. 
McWhirter Co., L. I. City. 
Pisani Bros., L. I. City. 
James Gillies & Sons, L. I. City. 
Richard A. Homeyer, Middle 
Village, L. I. 

Matches. 

John T. Huner, Bushwick 
Junction. 



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Chamber of Commerce of the Borough of Queens. 



Metalic Boats. 

Chris Weiland, Laurel Hill, F. I. 
Moving Pictures. 

Kineamacolor Co., Whitestone, 

L. J. 
Gaumont Co., Flushing, L. I. 
Music Cabinets. 

Tindale Cabinet Co., Flushing, 
L. I. 
Non-Skid Device for Autos. 

Philip C. Travers Mfg. Co., Far 
Rockaway, L. P 
Oil. 

Standard Oil Co., L. I. City. 
Oil Cloth. 

Alden Sampson Sons, Bushwick 
Junction, L. I. 
Ornamental Iron Works. 

George A. Just Co., L. I. City. 
Paint. 

Chilton Paint Co., College Point, 
L. F 

Paper Boxes. 

Lackner Bros., Whitestone, L. F 

F. C. Meyers, Bushwick Junction. 
Pianos. 

Sohmer & Co., L. F City. 

Steinway Piano Co., L. F City. 
Plasters. 

Asceptic Products Co., L. F City. 
Plumbers Supplies, Iron Pipe. 

Nason Mfg. Co., F. F City. 

Ronalds & Johnson, F. F City. 
Pocketbooks. 

Woodhaven Feather Co., Ozone 
Park. 
Presses. 

V. & O. Press Co., Glendale, F. I. 
Printing. 

Star Publishing Co., L. F City. 



Printing Ink. 

Wilson Printing Ink Co., F. F 
City. 

Printing Machines. 

John Thomson Press Co., F. I. 

City. 
Auto Press Co., College Point. 

Range Boilers and Barrels. 

Brooklyn Range Boiler Works, F. 
F City. 

Ribbons. 

Bayview Ribbon Co., Glendale, 

L. F 
Star Ribbon Mfg. Co., F. F City. 
Win. Wicke Ribbon Co., Glendale, 

F. F 
Mynepho Ribbon Mills, College 

Point. 

Roman Stone. 

Metropolitan Roman Stone Co., 
Richmond Hill, F. F 

Rope. 

Wm. B. Cating, Winfield, F. F 

Rubber Balls. 

Rosenthal Rubber Co., L. F City. 

Rubber Brushes and Sundries. 

R. W. Rhoades & Co., F. F City. 

Rubber Goods. 

American Hard Rubber Co., 

College Point. 
F B. Kleinert Rubber Co., College 

Point. . 
Traun Rubber Co., College Point. 

Rubber Stopples. 

Rubber Stopple Co., F. F City. 

Rugs, Etc. 

Keshan Renovating Co., F. F City. 
Crex Rug Co., Jamaica. 



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Sales Tickets. 

American Sales Book Co., Glen- 
dale, L. I. 
Sanitary Water Stills. 

Sanitary Water Still Co., Jamaica, 
L. I. 
Sheet Metal. 

Keiner, Williams Stamping Co., 
Richmond Hill. 
Silk. 

Astoria Silk Mills, L. I. City. 
Julius Brandes Mfg. Co., College 

Point. 
Champion Silk Co., L. I. City. 
Silk Dyeing. 

A. Gerlach & Co., College Point. 
Herring & Matter, College Point. 
R. A. Webber Silk Dyeing Co., 
College Point. 
Skylights. 

Arthur E. Rendle,Elmhurst, L. I. 
Smokers' Articles. 

W'm. DeMuth & Co., Ozone Park. 
Soap. 

L. I. Soap Works, Laurel Hill, 
L. I. 
Sugar. 

National Sugar Refining Co., L. I 
City. 
Switchboards. 

Metropolitan Switchboard Co., L. 
I. City. 
Tallow. 

F. Heffner, Laurel Hill, L. I. City. 
Peter Van Iderstine Sons, L. I. 

City. 
Van Iderstine Co., L. I. City. 
Tiffany Glass. 

Tiffany Studios, Corona, L. I. 
Toilet Preparations. 

Woodbury Co., Corona, L. I. 



Toilet Seats. 

Eclipse Seat Co., Far Rockaway, 
L. I. 
Toys. 

American Soldier Co., Glendale, 
L. I. 

F. E. Fuchs, St. Albans. 

Geo. Crampp, Ozone Park. 
Trimmings. 

Walter J. Vogt, Glendale, L. I. 
Turbine Engines. 

Hockenberg Turbine Co., Glen- 
dale, L. I. 
I nderwear, Suits, Sweaters. 

D. Nusbaum & Co., Ozone Park. 
Famish and Paints. 

C. A. Willey, L. I. City. 

Toch Bros., L. I. City. 

Edw. Smith & Co., L. I. City. 

Chase, Roberts & Co., L. I. City. 

Emil Caiman & Co., L. I. City. 

A. C. Horn Co., L. I. City. 

Mayer & Lowenstein, L. I. City. 

National Varnish Co., L. I. City. 

Pratt & Lambert, L. I. City. 

Lion Varnish Co., Glendale, L. I. 
Veneering. 

Astoria Veneer Mills, L. I. City. 

Geo. D. Emery. L. I. City. 
ITagons. 

Thos. Callister, Queens, L. I. 
Water Meiers. 

Neptune Meter Co., L. I. City. 
Well Driving and Central Machinery 

Sweeney & Gray Co., L. I. City. 
Whiskey. 

Columbia Distilling Co.,L. I. City. 
White Lead. 

Matheson Lead Co., L. I. City. 
White Lead Products. 

Marks Lissberger Sons, Inc., L. I. 
City. 



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Chamber of Commerce of the Borough of Queens. 



Residential Advantages 




HE natural advantages of the Borough of Queens and its 
actual proximity to the centre of activities in Manhattan, 
have produced such a demand for residential plots that in 
from three to five years a complete transformation of the 
portion of the borough which lies within ten miles of the 
East River, can be confidently predicted. Bridges, tun- 
nels and rapid transit lines have eliminated the East River 
as a natural barrier. Taking the property within a ten-mile radius of the 
centre of Manhattan, more of the 129 square miles of the Borough of 
Queens would be included than of any other borough of New York City. 
Measuring, however, from the Hudson River to the sea, the geographical 
centre of the City of New York lies in the heart of Queens. All the at- 
tractions of the country, combined with all the conveniences of the city, are 
here available to people of all classes. Thus the territory adjoining the 
East River where factories and other industries are rapidly being located, 
will prove a convenient dormitory for the mechanics and operatives who 
constitute a large proportion of the more thrifty inhabitants of the densely 
populated East Side. 

Beginning at Woodside and extending southward and eastward to 
Richmond Hill, Kew Gardens, Elmhurst, Forest Hills, Jamaica and Flush- 
ing, is the belt of high-class residential sections lying upon the higher eleva- 
tions of Long Island. 

Still southward of the belt referred to is the southern slope of the hills 
and the level lands stretching southward to Jamaica Bay now rendered al- 
most equally accessible with the sections above referred to by the elevated 
railroads and rapid transit lines running out from Brooklyn, and meeting 
lines from New York at Richmond Hill and Jamaica. Still further south 
are the resorts along the south beaches of Long Island until recently con- 
sidered too distant in point of time for all the year round residences. 

The admirably silent, swift and smokeless trains of the electrified Long 
Island Railroad are rapidly being supplemented by rapid transit lines. When 
it is realized that a resident at any point between Pennsylvania Station and 
Jamaica or Flushing may reach the theatrical and shopping centres of New 
York in less time than it would take the millionaires of Central Park East 
to reach the same centres, the transformation which is taking place will not 
be regarded as remarkable. 

On the other hand, the climate of Long Island, like that of Atlantic 
City, is tempered by its proximity to the sea. Its southern slopes and the 
summits of the hills are cooled by the prevailing sea breezes of the summer, 
and art and architecture are combining with nature and transportation to 
render all portions of Queens the most attractive residential sections of 
the City of Greater New York. 




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26 Chamber of Commence of the Borough of Queens. 



Real Estate Development 




LL sections of the borough are now undergoing rapid 
transformation in accordance with natural geographical 
conditions and artificial means of access and avenues of 
traffic. A vast influx of population from Manhattan and 
Brooklyn is taking place and is supplemented from all over 
the country by those who are brought to the borough by 
the establishment of new commercial and manufacturing 

interests. The zones of development may be conveniently treated under 

five divisions. 

I . THE RIVER FRONT— INDUSTRIAL ZONE. 

In the first of these should be grouped the developments of industrial 
and mercantile character along the East River and Newtown and Flushing 
Creeks, including Long Island City, Astoria, etc. These sections are of a 
distinctly urban character, and as they are quite as favorably situated from 
the point of view of commerce as the similar frontage of the Borough of 
Manhattan upon the East River and have better railroad facilities, it may 
be safely predicted that they will constitute the future industrial center of 
the city. The Connecting Railroad, the Pennsylvania tubes, the Queens- 
boro Bridge and the Belmont tunnel bring this river front section much 
nearer the distributing agencies of the heart of Manhattan than the shores 
of lower Brooklyn, the Bush Terminal, the Staten Island water front, or 
that of Jersey City. The Degnon Realty & Terminal Co. and the Tubes 
Realty &: Terminal Co. have large industrial developments here. In this 
belt also bounded west and north by the East River are the residential de- 
velopments of the Astoria Homestead Company, the Steinway Homestead 
Company and East River Heights, providing moderate priced homes for 
those engaged in the manifold business enterprises of this section. 

II. THE NORTHERN SLOPE. 

The second zone of activities may be defined as running from Long 
Island City southward to the central plateau of the island and extending 
from the head waters of Newtown Creek eastward to include Newtown, 
Elmhurst, Corona, and the entire area east of Flushing Creek, comprehend- 
ing Flushing, College Point, Whitestone, Bayside, etc. 

.// Neivtozvn or Elmhurst are the Barclay-Dugro tract of the Queens- 
boro Corporation and the extensive holdings of the Cord Meyer De- 
velopment Co. furnishing on easy terms houses of modern type and at- 
tractive appearance for persons of limited income, and ranging in cost 
from four or five thousand dollars upward. 



Chamber of Commerce of the Borough of Queens. 27 

At Corona, between Elmhurst and Flushing are hundreds of houses 
of two family type, apartment houses, tenements and small cottages suit- 
able for thrifty industrial workers. Well built houses command from 
$3,500 to $5,000 and rentals are reasonable. 

Flushing, one of the earliest villages in the New Netherlands, has 
streets that are well paved and lined with shade trees of full growth. Many 
beautiful residences, some of which are of great historical interest front 
upon the older streets and this section is an important social and commercial 
centre. Ingleside, Broadway, Auburndale, Murray Hill, and Kissena Park 
are sections in and adjoining Flushing, where lots may be purchased at prices 
ranging from $400 to $2,500. 

College Point and Whitestone, adjoin Flushing on the north and 
extend to the Sound. Sound Crest on Flushing Bay is well wooded. Houses 
sell for from $4,500 to $10,00(1. Malba, owned by the Realty Trust, is 
restricted to private residences; and Beechhurst, a high rolling plateau of 
135 acres, belong to the Shore Acres Realty Company, with plots selling 
from $800 up and dwellings from $4,000 to $10,000. 

Between Flushing and Bayside are Murray Hill Park, Bowne Park 
and Flushing Terrace, owned by the McKnight Realty Company; and 
Broadway, owned by the Rickert-Finley Realty Company, which includes 
about 4,000 lots selling at from $600 to $1,200., while houses range from 
$7,000 to $10,000. 

Douglaston at the eastern city limits on Little Neck Bav includes 
Douglas Manor, a high class development, upon a peninsula jutting into 
the bay, carefully restricted and improved with high class residences. Here 
also is Douglaston Park, comprehending 65 acres on the crest of a high 
hill. 

III. THE CENTRAL PLATEAU: 

The Third division or zone of development comprehends several de- 
velopments of the highest class upon the central plateau of the island, in- 
cluding the summits of the hills. 

On the main line of the Long Island Railroad, nine miles from the 
Pennsylvania Station is Forest Hills, the property of the Cord Meyer De- 
velopment Company, reached in fourteen or fifteen minutes' ride and hand- 
somely improved. Lots range in price from $800 to Si, 500 and attrac- 
tive cottages may be bought at from $5,000 to $10,000. The Sage Founda- 
tion Homes Co., organized to carry out the purposes of the ten million 
dollar endowment created by Mrs. Russell Sage, to create a "Garden City" 
which, by the use of ample capital and by conducting its operations on a 
large co-operative scale will exemplify the possibility of creating homes in 



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Fulton Street, Jamaica. 



artistic surroundings at minimum cost, has a development of 175 acres at 
this point. Lots are sold at prices ranging from $800 up, while houses com- 
mand prices ranging upwards from $6,000. 

Kew Guldens and Richmond Hill should be considered together. This 
property has been artistically laid out, and from its hills one commands a 
view of Jamaica Bay and the ocean on the south, and Flushing Bay, the 
Sound and the City on the north. The property is accessible by trolleys 
from Brooklyn and by the Atlantic Avenue Division and Main Line of the 
Long Island Railroad. The entire tract of 400 acres is restricted and the 
lots command prices ranging from $1,500 to $2,500 a lot for residential 
purposes. 

Jamaica, settled in 1656, by reason of the concentration there of all 
the Long Island lines of traffic, has become an important commercial cen- 
ter and distributing point of the borough. The new developments at Jamaica 
are in general along Hillside Avenue, while a number of small develop- 
ments spread southward of the village. 

Jamaica Hillcrest comprehends about 250 acres extending from Hill- 
side Avenue over the high ridge of land between Jamaica and Flushing, is 
fully improved, and a high class development. 



Chamber of Commerce of the Borough of Queens. 29 

Jamaica Estates has been laid out with broad curving avenues em- 
phasizing the great beauty of the location. A number of handsome houses 
have been built and land is sold in general in plots of 7,500 or more square 
feet. 

At Hollis, two miles east of Jamaica, there are a number of parklike 
developments, including Hollis Park Gardens, Holliswood and Hollis Ter- 
race. Adjoining these on the east are the developments known as Queens 
Manor, Queens Court and Bellaire. In these sections, the prices range 
from $600 upwards. 

IV. THE SOUTHERN SLOPE AND PLAIN. 

The fourth zone or belt comprehends the plains south of Jamaica 
Avenue, or Fulton Street, and running to and along Jamaica Bay. Wood- 
haven, Morris Park, Richmond Hill and South Jamaica are being rapidly 
built up with moderate priced cottages. The entire section west of 
Jamaica has" been gridironed with rectangular street plotting now incor- 
porated in the city maps, and these sections are practically extensions east- 
ward of the former City of Brooklyn. The developments progress along 
the lines of traffic passing through and emanating from Brooklyn, the prin- 
cipal feature being the Atlantic Avenue Division of the Long Island Rail- 
road. Springfield is more rural in character and is located southeast of 
Jamaica near the headwaters of Jamaica Bay. Here is the development 
known as Springfield Gardens. 

V. THE BEACHES. 

The Fifth belt comprehends the Rockaway Peninsula, extending from 
the village of Far Rockaway, which is at the eastern limit of the city, west- 
ward along a sandy point six or seven miles in length, which separates 
Jamaica Bay from the Atlantic Ocean. On this peninsula are many seaside 
developments, including Edgemere, Arverne, Rockaway Park, Belle Har- 
bor and Neponsit, all of which have been attractively laid out and have all 
the conveniences of the city in the way of street improvements and public 
service. Lots vary in cost from $600 to $2,000. 

With such a variety of choice, it would be strange, indeed, if any one 
failed to find an appropriate and convenient spot in which to locate a home 
in Queens according to their desires. 



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Long Island Railroad 




HE Long Island Railroad Company — one of the first steam 
railroads of the United States — was incorporated in April, 
1834, to build a line from the village of Greenport to the 
waters edge in the village of Brooklyn, to connect with 
steamboats to make a through line from New York to 
Boston. The first line built was from Brooklyn to Jamaica 
in 1834; Long Island City to Jamaica in 1860 ; Long Island 
City and New York and Hushing Junction, 1854; Whitestone and White- 
stone Junction 1868; Rockaway Junction and Far Rockaway 1873; Great 
Neck and Port Washington 1898. 

In 1912 it operated 399 miles of tracks of which 69 miles is in the 
Borough of Queens — some two tracks, others four and six tracks. There 
are 46.8 miles of track in the Borough of Queens now electrified and 22.2 
not electrified, part of which will be electrified by the Spring of 1913. 

In 1901 the Pennsylvania Railroad acquired control of the Long 
Island Railroad and since 1905 the entire system has been practically 
renewed and rebuilt with an expenditure of over $35,000,000 for addi- 
tional tracks, rolling stock, stations and safety appliances. The work now 
under way will require at least $10,000,000 more. All of this work has 
been done in conjunction with the vast improvements of the Pennsylvania 
system in and around New York City estimated to have cost $160,000,000. 

Tunnels. 

The construction of the four steel tunnels from the Pennsylvania 
Station under the Island of Manhattan and the East River, connecting not 
only the Borough of Queens but all of Long Island to the heart of New 
York, was one of the greatest railroad projects ever undertaken. Great 
engineering difficulties were encountered on account of the great number 
of tubes and the tremendous rapidly moving express and local trains they 
were built to stand. The length of each tunnel from Pennsylvania Station 
to the First Avenue shaft is 5,199 feet; First Avenue shaft to Long Island 
City shaft, 3,955 feet; Long Island City shaft to portal 3,950 feet. 

Sunnyside Yards. 

The Sunnyside Yards is a part of the great terminal system of the 
Pennsylvania Railroad and the Long Island Railroad and is said to be the 
largest and most scientifically arranged passenger car yard in the world. It 
has an area of 190 acres used for the purpose of car storage and for over- 
hauling and cleaning day coaches and Pullman cars; also for making up 



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trains preparatory to their trip to the Pennsylvania Station in Manhattan, 
from which they run to all parts of the trunk, system of the Pennsylvania 
Railroad. The yard is 5,500 feet in length and 1,550 feet in width. 
There are at present 73 miles of tracks in the yard arranged in a system 
of loops that will have a capacity for the storage of 2,000 cars extensively. 
In the construction of the yard over 2,300,000 cubic yards of dirt were 
moved. The yard is traversed by eight stately steel bridges and viaducts 
some of which cost over $500,000 providing for carrying the highways of 
Queens across the net work of tracks. Within this yard is the power house 
that supplies the power for the entire electrical operation of the Long Island 
Railroad and contains 32 boilers set in batteries of two boilers each with 
a capacity of 37,500 Horse Power, or 50,000 Kilowatts of electrical power. 
The building has a capacity of double the present amount of machinery 
or 100,000 Kilowatts. 

Electrification. 
Electrical work on the lines of the Long Island Railroad commenced 
in 1904 and electric service was started from Brooklyn to Rockaway Park 
across the Jamaica Bay trestle July 28, 1905; from Brooklyn to Jamaica 
August 30, 1905; to Belmont Park, October 2, 1905; Springfield Junction, 
October 16, 1905; and Valley Stream via Hammels and Far Rockaway, 
December II, 1905. On May 17, 1906, electric service was extended 




Sunnvside Yards. 



2,2 Chamber of Commerce of the Borough of Queens. 

from Springfield Junction to Valley Stream completing a loop around the 
Eastern section of Jamaica Bay; on May 26, 1908, service extended to 
Hempstead and Garden City. 

On September 10, 1910, electric operation was inaugurated from 
Pennsylvania Station, Manhattan, to Jamaica and Long Beach; also via 
Glendale cut-off to Rockaway Beach. On October 22, 1912, electric service 
was started from Pennsylvania Station via Flushing to College Point and 
Whitestone. Electric service will be started to Port Washington by the 
Spring of 1913. Plans are also prepared for the electrification of the 
Montauk Division so that ultimately all the lines of the Long Island Rail- 
road within the Borough of Queens will be electrified. 

Improvements. 

Woodside 11 'infield Cttt-Off. 

Estimated to cost $1,500,000 will straighten the main line between 
Woodside and Winfield saving a distance of 600 feet, eliminating a double 
curve and providing for the elimination of ten or twelve grade crossings, 
including a massive six track steel bridge over 200 feet in length over 
Queens Boulevard to cost $500,000. Length of track affected 1^4 miles. 

North Shore Division. 

Estimated to cost $1,500,000; includes elimination of grade cross- 
ings through Flushing and the electrification of the line to Port Washing- 
ton and Whitestone Landing. 

Jainaiea Improvements. 

This improvement, which it is expected will be completed by the 
spring of 1913, will completely revolutionize the passenger and freight 
traffic systems at that point. It includes the elimination of grade crossings 
between Richmond Hill and Washington Street, Jamaica, and is estimated 
to cost over $3,500,000. The tracks are raised about 20 feet and the 
"fill" will amount to about 1,850,000 cubic yards and will involve laying 
over 48,700 cubic yards of concrete and 78,400 square feet of bridge floor. 
The steel will weigh 3,850 tons and there will be 10,000 feet of sheds and 
platforms. A new three-story station is being erected, which will later be 
a twelve-story structure, of marble and polished terra cotta in which will 
be housed most of the offices of the railroad. 

Freight. 
Freight Rates. 

Freight traffic to and from points outside of a radius of 100 miles of 
New York City destined to or coming from points in the Borough of 



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33 



Queens, west of Flushing on the North Side Division and Jamaica on the 
Main Line and Montauk Division, the flat New York City rate of freight 
will apply. To and from points beyond Flushing and Jamaica, including 
the Rockaways, the following rates apply over and above the flat New 
York City rates : 



1 

5c 



4c 



4 

2c 



Classes. 

Rate in cents per 100 lbs. 



This is known as the Metropolitan Freight Rate so that a manufac- 
turer located in Queens has exactly the same rate for shipping his goods as 
if located in the Borough of Manhattan. 

Freight Traffic — Rail. 





No. Tons 


Increase 




A<vg. Miles 


Miles of 


Year 


Carried 


Decrease (-) 


Reienne 


Per Ton 


Track Operated 


1900 


■ 1,513,3S7 


-78,292 


$1,300,629 


27.31 


379. 4S 


1901 


1,642,937 


129,550 


1,381,483 


25.74 


380.27 


1902 


1,945,854 


302,917 


1,605,975 


36.14 


395.98 


1903 


2,1U4,598 


158,744 


1,784,056 


26.45 


391.76 


19U4 


2,491,744 


387,146 


2,115(1,456 


23.45 


391.76 


1905 


2,745,622 


253,878 


2,322,334 


25.33 


391.76 


1906 


2,990,851 


245,229 


2,538,080 


34.34 


391.84 


1907 


3,300,611 


309,760 


2,705,079 


34.67 


391.75 


190S 


3,072,521 


-228,090 


2,540,033 


25.98 


391. S9 


1909 


3,595,657 


523,136 


2,972,370 


25.04 


390.56 


1910 


3,814,209 


218,552 


3,100,064 


24.37 


. 398.88 


1911 


3,996,717 


182,508 


3,258,482 


24.39 


398.84 



Passenger Service. 
Passenger Traffic. 

Lying within a radius of 15 to 20 miles from the business sections of 
Manhattan and Brooklyn is the great suburban zone of the Borough of 
Queens. This is one of the most wonderful residential sections in the 
world. The following table will give the reader an adequate idea of the 
immense growth in travel in the past twelve years to and from Brooklyn 
and New York to Long Island. The number of passengers carried in- 
creased 165 per cent, in the twelve years. 





No. of Passengers 


Increase 


No. of 


Year 


Carried 


Decrease (-) 


Commuters 


1900 


12,837,649 


610,444 


No 


1901 


14,520,218 


2,132,569 


Previous 


1902 


16,611,102 


2,080,SS4 


Record 


1903 


17,552,060 


940,958 


Kept. 


1904 


18,815,977 


1,263,917 




1905 


1S,199,162 


-616,815 


76,644 


1906 


21,626,390 


3,427,228 


88,794 


1907 


23,950,574 


2,334,157 


106,208 


1908 


23,242,838 


- 707,709 


108,429 


1909 


27,466,761 


4,223,923 


125,873 


1910 


30,978,615 


3,511,854 


142,427 


1911 


33,867,22S 


2,888,613 


162,318 



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The following table gives the number of passengers entering and 
leaving the three principal terminals of the Long Island Railroad for the 
past two years. 





L. I. City 


Brooklyn 


Penna. Sta. 


Local 


Total 


191D 


6,332,87S 


13,455,991 


1,422,909 


9,766,837 


30,978,615 


1911 


3,308,938 


14,094,003 


6,224,429 


10,239,S58 


33,867,228 



The following tables give the distance and number of trains each 
way per day, the time it takes and the rate of fare for every station on all 
branches of the Long Island Railroad within the Borough of Queens. 



Atlantic Avenue Division 



Distance 

fro m 

Bklyn. 

Union Course 6.3 

Woodhaven 6.7 

Woodhaven Junction 7.2 

Clarenceville 7.8 

Morris Park S.2 

Dunton 8.9 

Jamaica 9.6 

Hillside 10.6 

Hollis 11.6 

Bellaire 12.6 

Queens 14.2 



Ti m e 

Local Exp. 
14 

16 
IS 
20 
2 7 
24 
26 
29 
32 
35 
36 



No. of Trains 
To From 



14 

17 
IS 



49 
50 
57 
49 
55 
49 
94 
25 
25 
25 
25 



Bkln. 

49 
50 
60 
49 
62 
49 
97 
26 
26 
26 
26 



One 
Way 

.10 
.10 

.10-. 15 
.10 

.10-. 15 
.10 

.10-. 20 
.25 
.25 
.30 
.3" 



Main Line to Penn. Station. New Yort 
Distance Time No. of Trains 



Woodside 5.0 

Winfield 6.0 

Forest Hills 9.2 

Kew 10.0 

Jamaica 11.7 

Hillside 12.7 

Hollis 13.6 

Queens 15.3 

Montauk 

Bushwick Junction 3.9 

Glendale 5.1 

Richmond Hill 7.6 

Dunton 8.6 

Jamaica 9-6 



Local Exp. 
10 
21 

17 
19 
24 

25 
27 
31 

Division 
11 
14 
21 
29 
24 



14 
15 
18 
27 
29 
33 



To 
A . Y. 

51) 
19 
26 
28 
56 
2 

16 

17 



From 

A . V. 

51 
5 y 

24 
25 
56 
3 
19 
19 



One 
Way 

.14 
.17 
.26 

.28 
.30 
.37 
.37 
.43 



to Long Island City 



Hi 
12 

20 

20 



17 

6 

IS 

45 



17 

6 

19 

5 
47 



North Side Division (to Pennsylvania Station. Nt 



Fare 
Round 
Trip 

.20 
.20 

.20-. 30 
.20 

.20-. 30 
.20 

.20-. 40 
.45 
.50 
.55 
.60 



Fare 
Round 
Trip 

.25 
.30 
.45 
.48 

. 50 
.63 
.65 

.75 



.20 
.20 
.38 
.40 
.40 



York 



Distance 

in 

Miles 



Station 

Elmhurst 6. 

Corona 7. 

Flushing (Bridge St.) 9 

College Point 11. 

Malba I- 1 

Whitestone 12 

Whitestone Landing (B'ch'rst) 13 

Flushing (Main Street) 9. 

Murray Hill 10 

Broadway H 

Auburndale H 

Bayside 12 

Douglaston 1 + 

Little Neck 14 



Ti m e 
(Min.) 
Local Exp. 



19 
24 
30 
29 
30 
33 
42 
32 
35 
38 
40 
42 
44 
48 



16 
IS 



36 

23 
26 
28 
30 
30 
34 
38 



No. of Trains 
To From 
N. Y. 
34 
38 

■> 7 

33 



A'. Y 

35 
40 
23 
23 
12 
22 
23 
22 
22 
22 
22 
24 
23 
23 



One 
Way 

.20 



>5 



13 


36 


23 


3S 


23 


40 


23 


25 


23 


30 


23 


32 


19 


34 


24 


38 


24 


42 


24 


43 



Fare 
Round 

Trip 
.34 
.39 
.45 
.55 
.62 
.65 
.69 
.45 
.53 
.55 
.60 
.65 
.71 
.74 



Commu- 
tation 
3.50 

4.20 
4.80 

5.10 
6.00 
6.00 
6.10 
6.20 
6.45 
6.45 



Commu- 
tation 
5.00 
5.00 
6 . SO 
7.10 
s 00 
S.10 
8.20 
8.45 



4.05 
4.40 
5.10 
6 . 00 
6.00 



Commu- 
tation 
N.Y. L.I.C. 



5.60 
5.60 
7.10 

7.40 
50 
00 
20 
10 
10 
40 
70 
00 
20 
35 



60 

60 
10 



5.40 
5.50 
6.00 
6.20 
5.10 
5.10 
5.40 
5.70 
6.00 
6.20 
6.25 




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Pennsylvania Station 

HE magnificent Pennsylvania Station, situated in the heart 
of the shopping and theatrical district of New York City, 
is one of the principal entrances to the Borough of Queens. 
The north side of the station along 33rd Street is assigned 
to the trains of the Long Island Railroad and passengers 
can go from this point by electric trains to every part of 
the Borough of Queens. Pour minutes after starting, pass- 
ing through the tunnels under the Island of Manhattan and the East River, 
trains emerge into Long Island City, and in nine minutes from starting the 
first stop is made at Woodside, five miles distant from Pennsylvania Station. 
The station was opened September 8, 1910, and Long Island Railroad 
trains commenced operation on September 12, 1910, and Pennsylvania 
R. R. trains on November 27, 1910. 

The station is built after the Roman Doric style of architecture and 
covers the entire area bounded by Seventh and Eighth Avenues and 31st 
and 33rd Streets, covering more territory than any other building in the 
world constructed at one time. It is larger than the Union Station at St. 




Interior View of Pennsylvania Station. 



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39 



Louis and more spacious than the new station at Washington, covering 
eight acres of ground, and took six years to build. 

The following statistics give some idea of its immensity: 

Length of building 788 feet, width 430 feet. 

Waiting room 277 feet long, 108 feet wide, 150 feet high. 

Area station and yard is 28 acres, and in this there are 16 miles of 
track. 

There are 11 passenger platforms, with total length of 21,500 feet. 

Total excavation required 3,000,000 cubic yards. 

Maximum capacity of all tunnels and trains per hour, 144. 

Storage capacity of station yard tracks, 386 cars. 

Number of trains daily service leaving Pennsylvania Station, 174. 

Number of trains daily service arriving Pennsylvania Station, 168. 




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Chamber of Commerce of the Borough of Queens. 



Connecting Railroad 




HE New York Connecting Railroad, incorporated April, 
1892, was granted a certificate on February 14, 1907, by 
the Board of Rapid Transit Railroad Commissioners of 
the City of New York, authorizing it to lay down, con- 
struct and operate a railroad from a point in the Borough 
of Brooklyn, through said Borough and through the Bor- 
ough of Queens over and across the East River, Wards 
Island, Little Hell Gate, Randall's Island and Bronx Kills to a point in the 
Borough of the Bronx, approximately twelve miles of road, connecting 
with the railroad of the Harlem River and Portchester Railroad Co. (New 
York, New Haven and Hartford Railroad). The certificate and franchise 
were approved by the Board of Estimate and Apportionment on February 
15, 1907, and by the Mayor on March 14th, 1907. 

The New York Connecting Railroad is backed by the Pennsylvania 
Railroad and the New York, New Haven and Hartford Railroad, and will 
connect with the former at Woodside (Queens) and the latter at Port 
Morris (Bronx) uniting these two big trunk lines and giving a direct all 
rail route between Long Island and the New England States and the West. 
The American Bridge Co. has the contract for construction of the 
massive bridge that will cross Hell Gate, and which will be ready in the 
Fall of 1914. 

The Bridge itself, which will be the largest of its kind in the world, 
is estimated to cost $18,000,000 to complete. With viaducts, it will be 
three miles long and nearly 100,000 tons of structural steel will be required 
to build it. There will be three great spans. The first will connect Long 
Island City and Ward's Island. The Second, Ward's Island and Randall's 
Island and the third, Randall's Island and the Bronx. The spans crossing 
from Long Island to Ward's Island will be the lightest and it will be known 
as the Hell Gate Bridge. Two big steel arches 3,000 feet in length will 
support the deck. These will rise to a height of 300 feet above the water. 
The deck will be 140 feet above the river. The distance between the towers 
will be 1,017 feet. 

The tremendous effect upon all Long Island, and especially the Bor- 
ough of Queens, resulting from the completion of this bridge and connect- 
ing railroad in conjunction with the big system of improvements of the 
Pennsylvania Railroad involving an expenditure of $150,000,000 will be 
immeasurable. A great impetus has been given to the establishment of 
new manufacturing industries in the Borough of Queens. Many new big 



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industrial plants have already considered locating in the Borough of Queens, 
having expressed themselves as well satisfied with the conditions as to abun- 
dant labor supply, nearness to steamship lines reaching all parts of the 
world and the markets of the great metropolis; and the connection to Long 
Island with the main land by all rail connection will be the deciding factor 
in bringing a vast number of new industries to Queens Borough. 




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Chamber of Commerce of the Borough of Queens. 



Rapid Transit 




HE dual system of rapid transit which the Public Service 
Commission and the Board of Estimate and Apportion- 
ment have adopted for the City of New York will prove 
of inestimable value to the Borough of Queens, both for 
its future development and the convenience of its traveling 
public. When the rapid transit lines proposed for Queens 
are constructed and in operation the majority of the resi- 
dents of the Borough will be able to travel from their homes to not only 
the business districts, but to all sections of New York and Brooklyn con- 
veniently, rapidly, and at a 5 cent rate of fare. 

Engineering plans have been prepared and actual work of construction 
will be started shortly on the following rapid transit lines into the Borough, 
to be operated by the Interboro Rapid Transit Company and the Brooklyn 
Rapid Transit Company: 



Type of 
Line constr. 

Steinway Tunnel from Grand 
Central Station to Long Island 
City Subway 

Steinway Tunnel Extension to 

Queensboro Bridge Plaza S'bw'y & Elev. 

59th Street from 7th Avenue to 
Queensboro Plaza, Long Isl- 
and City " " 

Astoria Line from Queensboro 
Bridge through 2nd Avenue 
to Ditmars Avenue Elevated 

Corona & Woodside Line 

Roosevelt Avenue Line to Syca- 
more Avenue 

Fulton Street, Brooklyn to 
Queensboro Bridge Plaza.... 

Cypress Hills Extension to 
Grand Street, Jamaica; City 
Line Extension to Lefferts 
Avenue, Richmond Hill 

Myrtle Avenue Extension to 

Luthern Cemetery " 



A : o. of Estimated 
Miles tracks Cost 



1.60 



0.S9 



Operated by 



Interboro R. T. Co. 



$3,000,000 

721,050 " 

2,495,500 Brooklyn R. T. Co. 



2.51 
5.4S 



5 . 50 



4.60 



1.00 



1,960,750 

4,425,2110 



l.R.T.Co. & B.R.T. 



1,200,000 " " 

3,280,000 Brooklyn R. T. 

2,796,000 
6117,000 " 



In addition to the above lines the Interboro Rapid Transit Co. will 
extend its Second Avenue Elevated line from Manhattan across the Queens- 
boro Bridge to Long Island City. With the present and proposed rapid 
transit facilities the Borough of Queens will have three important transit 
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WOODSIDE-WINFIELD CuT-OFF 

A. 

Oueensboro Bridge Plaza, Long Island City. 
From this point, which will be a very important transit center and 
transfer point, rapid transit lines will radiate in all directions. 

( 1 ) To the north, a three-track elevated line through Jackson Ave- 
nue to Second Avenue to Ditmars Avenue, Astoria, to be operated jointly 
by the Interboro and the Brooklyn Rapid Transit Companies. 

(2) To the east, across Diagonal Street and over the Sunnyside Yards 
to Thomson Avenue and Greenpoint Avenue to Woodside, a three-track 
line, to be operated jointly by the Interboro and the Brooklyn Rapid Transit 
Companies. This line will be continued out Roosevelt Avenue through 
Elmhurst and Corona into Flushing. 

(3) To the south will be the extension of the Steinway Tunnel from 
its mouth at Van Alst and 4th Street, to be operated by the Interboro in 
connection with the present and proposed subways in Manhattan. Also the 
extension of the elevated lines of the Brooklyn Rapid Transit Co., known 
as the Crosstown line, will run southward from the Bridge Plaza, connect- 
ing with all the elevated lines in Brooklyn and giving a direct north and 
south route to Coney Island. 

(4) To the west, across Queensboro Bridge into Manhattan will 
operate the trains of the Brooklyn Rapid Transit, connecting with the 
59th Street, 7th Avenue and Broadway Subway, and also the extension of 
the 2nd Avenue Elevated line of the Interboro. 

B. 

Woodside, L. I. 
At the intersection of Roosevelt Avenue and the six tracks of the Long 
Island Railroad there will be a joint transfer station that will be of the 



Chamber of Commerce of the Borough of Queens. 45 

utmost importance to all Long Island. Passengers coming from any divi- 
sion of the Long Island Railroad, whether to the North Shore, the Main 
Line, the Montauk Division or the Rockaway Divisions, will be able to 
transfer directly at this point to the elevated lines of both the Interboro 
and the Brooklyn Rapid Transit, connecting with the Queensboro Bridge 
Plaza and the Steinway Tunnel. In other words, all Long Island Railroad 
passengers will have at their disposal the whole of the city's comprehensive 
transit system for a 5 cent fare. 

C. 
Jamaica, L. I. 

One of the principal beneficiaries of the rapid transit extensions from 
Brooklyn into Queens will be that section known as the former town of 
Jamaica, including Woodhaven, Richmond Hill and Jamaica, which sec- 
tions will, upon the completion of the third tracking of the Broadway and 
Fulton Street elevated lines in Brooklyn and the extension of the elevated 
from Cypress Hills over Jamaica Avenue to Grand Street, Jamaica, and 
the extension of the City Line elevated over Liberty Avenue to Lefferts 
Avenue, Richmond Hill, be brought from 15 to 30 minutes nearer Man- 
hattan for a 5 cent fare than is possible at present. 

These elevated lines will be used in connection with the Brooklyn and 
Williamsburg Bridges and the Center Street loop in Manhattan to give all 
this section of Queens a rapid transit service equal to that of any other 
section of the city. The running time from Jamaica to Center Street loop 
by express trains will be 35 minutes and from Richmond Hill and Morris 
Park, 30 minutes. 

Immediate Construction Promised. 

It is estimated that all of the lines proposed for Queens can be com- 
pleted and ready for operation within a year and a half after construction 
starts. Construction is now under way in all parts of the city on the rapid 
transit lines under the dual rapid transit system. 



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Chamber of Commerce of the Borough of Queens. 



Surface Railways 



Trolley Lines. 




HE network of surface lines traversing the various parts 
of the Borough has been an important factor in its develop- 
ment by providing cheap transportation not only from 
Manhattan and Brooklyn to all parts of the Borough, but 
from one section to another of the Borough widely sepa- 
rated. Surface lines now connect Long Island City with 
all parts of the north side of the Borough via Elmhurst, 
Corona and Flushing, and Flushing is connected with Whitestone, Bayside 
and College Point. 

Jamaica is a rapidly growing center for surface lines, and from Jama- 
ica and Richmond Hill you can travel to Park Row, Manhattan, for a 5 
cent fare either entirely by trolley or by transfering to the Elevated at 
Cypress Hills, which crosses Brooklyn Bridge. You can also travel to the 
New York end of the Queensboro Bridge at 59th Street from Jamaica 
for a 5 cent fare via Flushing and Long Island City. From Jamaica trolley 
lines also run eastward to Mineola, Hempstead and Garden City, and 
southward to Far Rockaway and Rockaway Beach. 

The Third Avenue Railroad Company has recently inaugurated a ser- 
vice across the Queensboro Bridge to the Bridge Plaza, Long Island City, 
so that passengers can be carried from Long Island City at a 5 cent fare 
across Queensboro Bridge to Third Avenue, down Third Avenue to Park 
Row, or across 42nd Street to the North River, or northward on Third 
Avenue to Harlem. 

The Manhattan & Queens Traction Corporation had transferred to it 
on October 31, 1912, the franchise held by the South Shore Traction Co. 
and commenced construction work on November 2nd, 1912, on the line ex- 
tending from Long Island City over Queens Boulevard to Jamaica and 
the Nassau County line. The MacArthur Brothers Contracting Co., who 
have charge of construction, expect to have the line finished and cars operat- 
ing from the Queensboro Bridge to Jamaica by June 1, 1913, and to the 
Nassau County line by January 1, 1914. This new line will give a 5 cent 
fare for a distance of 17 miles through the heart of the Borough. 

The following are the transit companies operating all or in part in the 
Borough of Queens: 



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Name of Rail-way 


Lines 


Operated 


Miles 

of 
Track 
1912 


No. of Fare 

Passengers for 

Year Ending 

June, 30, 1912 


Incor- 
por- 
ated 


Remarks 




From 


To 




New York & 
Queens Co. 
Railway 


New York 
via Queens- 
boro Bridge 
& Long Isl- 
and City 

Flushing 

City Line, 
Brooklyn 

Jamaica 
Jamaica 


L. I. City 

Dutch Kills 

Steinway 

Astoria 

Ravenswood 

Calvary 

Elmhurst 

Corona & 

Flushing 
j College Point 
( & Jamaica 


76.37 


23,640,701 


1896 


Owned jointly 
by the L. I. R.R. 
& the Interboro 
R. T. Co. 


New York & Long 
Island Trac. Co. 


So. Ozone Park 
Freeport, Ozone 
Park, Wood- 
haven & Jamai- 
ca. 
Hollis & Queens 


41.11* 


7,75S,657 


1894 


Owned jointly 
by the L. I. R.R. 
& the Interboro 
R. T. Co. 


Long Island Elec- 
tric Railway Co. 


Hollis, Queens 
& Hempstead 


26.56* 


3,S37,468 


1899 


Owned jointly 
by the L. I. R.R. 
& the Interboro 
R. T. Co. 


New York & North 
Shore Trac. Co. 


Flushing 


Whitestone, 
Bayside, Great 
Neck, Roslyn & 
Port Washing- 
ton 


37.09* 


2,084,758 


1902 


ODeration start- 
ed July 1910 


Ocean Electric Rv. 
Co. 


Far Rock- 
a way 


Hammels, Belle 
Harbor, Rock- 
awav Beach 


14.23 


2,230,951 


1897 


Owned by the 
L. I. R. R.' 


Manhattan 8r Q'ns 
Traction Corpora- 
tion (So. Shore 
Traction Co.) 


New York 
via Queens- 
boro Bridge, 
Long Island 


Bridge Plaza. 
L.I. City (Local 
Service) Jamai- 
ca and Nassau 
Co. Line 


3.33 


2,969,950 


1903 


Local Service 
started 19 09. 
Line to Jamaica 
now under con- 
struction. 


Brooklyn, Queens 
Co. & Suburban 
R. R. 


B'klyn (Met- 
rop'Iit'n av.) 
B'klyn (Cy- 
press Hills) 


Middle Village 
(D r v Harbor 

Rd!) 
Jamaica 


23.32t 


1,698,816 

7,860,125 


1893 


Owned by the 
Brooklvn R. T. 
Co. 


Brooklvn Heights 
Ra ; lroad Co. 


Bk. (Rgwd.) 

tt It 

Mhtn. De- 
lancev St. 


Richmond Hill 
(Myrtle Ave.) 
Flushing 

North Beach 
P'k Row, Man- 
hattan, North 
River & 42nd 
St. 


54.19t 


4,193,772 
2,985,899 

5,236,259 


1887 


Owned bv the 
B. R. T. Co. 


Third Ave. Bridge 
Co. 


L. I. Citv 
Bdg. Plaza 


3.76 




1909 


ContrTd bv 3rd 
Ave. R. R. Co. 

Operation start- 
ed Jan. 1912. 



* Operated in both Queens and Nassau County. 
+ Operated in both Queens and Kings County. 



GROWTH OF STREET RAILWAY TRAFFIC (Boroueh of Queens.) 


Year 


No. of Fares 
Collected 


Annual 
Increase 


Annual 
Percent 
Increase 

3.7 
20.8 

1.1 
18.6 

14.4 
6.5 


Year 


No. of Fares 
Collected 


Annual 
Increase 

3,831, S34 
4,617,567 
3,363,6S9 
1,283,007 
74S.026 
3,884,298 
9,980,563 


Annual 
Per cent 
Increase 


1898 
1899 
1900 
1901 
1902 
1903 
1904 


9,128,804 
9,472,460 
11,441,751 
11,564.116: 
13,564,062 
15,689,210 
16,701,653 


343,656 
1,969.291 

122,311 
2,155,325 
1,969,823 
1,012.443 


1905 
1906 
1907 
1908 
1909 
1910 
1911 


20,533,487 
25,151,054 
28,514,743 
29,797,750 
30,545,776 
34,430,074 
44,410,637 


22.9 
22.5 
13.4 
4.5 
2.5 
12.7 
28.8 



Total Increase 1S9S-1911— 34,281,833 or 366 Per cent. 



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CiiAMiucK ok Commerce of the Borough of Queens. 



Steinway Tunnel- (Belmont Tunnel) 




HE Steinway Tunnel will be put into operation as part of 
the Interborough Rapid Transit System, it is expected, 
within the next few months. This tunnel will connect the 
entire subway system of the Interborough from Times 
Square and Grand Central Station at 42nd Street, Man- 
hattan, with Long Island City at its present terminal at 
Van Alst Avenue and 4th Street and will be extended from 
that point as an elevated line to the Queensboro Bridge Plaza. From this 
point trains will be operated both over the Astoria extension and the ex- 
tension to Corona and Flushing. 

The original tunnel franchise was secured by the New York and Fong 
Island Railroad Co., incorporated July, 1887, for the purpose of building 
a tunnel from Fong Island City under the East River to East 34th Street. 
Immediately after incorporation, application was made to the old city of 
New York for a right-of-way under 34th Street which was denied by the 
Board of Aldermen; but on December 30th, 1890, it secured a perpetual 
franchise under 42nd Street, Manhattan, from 10th Street to the easterly 
end of 42nd Street. The Company also received from the Mayor of Fong 
Island City a perpetual franchise to enter that city, and received in 1891 
from the Commissioners of the Faw Office, for the sum of $500.00, a 
grant to the right-of-way under the East River. 

After obtaining a franchise the Company, which was then controlled 
by William Steinway, began construction, but a serious explosion occurred 
and work was abandoned. 

Under the Railroad Faw in operation at that time, the New York 
and Fong Island Railroad Co. should have completed the tunnel and 
begun operation by July, 1894. This was not done and the owners applied 
for extensions of time, which the State Fegislature granted for five years 
from 1895. Further extensions of time were granted by the Fegislature 
in 1901, 1902, and 1904. 

In 1905, the Steinway Estate sold its franchise to August Belmont for 
the sum of $80,000.00. Work was begun again on the construction of the 
tunnel by the Degnon Contracting Co. on July 14th, 1905, and finished 
on October 14, 1907. During the time of construction August Belmont 
obtained an injunction restraining the city from interferance, which injunc- 
tion was made permanent. On November 23, 1907, the Appellate Division 
unanimously decided that the franchise was valid and active, after many 
Civic Organizations had objected to its validity. The tunnel has remained 
idle since that time, but it is now expected that operation of same will be 
commenced in the very near future. 



Chamber of Commerce of the Borough of Oueens. 



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Government 




HE Government of the City of New York has three of- 
cials elected by the whole city — the Mayor, the Comp- 
troller and the President of the Board of Aldermen. The 
last is Vice-Mayor. There is a Borough President for 
each of the five Boroughs and certain departments are 
borough departments with the Presidents as Executives. 
The heads of general City Departments are filled by ap- 
pointees of the Mayor, who also names members of the Board of City 
Magistrates. The Legislative branch is the Board of Aldermen, elected by 
districts. Certain constitutional officers of counties are still elected, though 
they are paid out of the City Budget and the Counties are otherwise not 
considered. The Charter of 1901, which went into effect January 1st, 
1902, defines the functions of all departments. 

City of New York Municipal Government. 

Executive Department 

Office Name Address 

Mayor William J. Gaynor City Hall, New York, N. Y. 

Comptroller William A. Prendergast 280 Broadway, 

President Bd. of Aldermen. . . .John Purroy Mitchell City Hall, " 

Boro. of Manhattan George McAneny " 

Bronx Cyrus C. Miller ' 3d Av. & 177th St., Bronx. 

" Brooklyn Alfred E. Steers Borough Hall, Brooklyn. 

" Queens Maurice E. Connolly Long Island City. 

" Richmond George Cromwell New Brighton, Staten Island. 

City (Departments) 

Commissioner of Bridges Arthur J. O'Keefe 13 Park Row, New York. 

Docks & Ferries Calvin Tompkins Pier A., North River, N. Y. 

Parks (Queens) Walter G. Eliot Forest Park, Queens Borough. 

Health Ernest J. Lederle Center & Walker Sts., N. Y. 

" Charities Michael J. Drummond Ft. E. 26th St., New York. 

" Licenses Herman Robinson 277 Broadway, 

Tax k Assessments ■ . . .Lawson Purdy, Pres Hall of Records, " 

" Water Supply, Gas & 

Electricity Henry S. Thompson 15 Park Row, 

Deputy Commissioner (Queens) .M. P. Walsh Long Island City " 

Fire Commissioner Joseph Johnson 157 E. 67th St., " 

Police Rhinelander Waldo 240 Center St., 

Tenement House Commissioner . John J. Murphy 44 E. 23rd St., " 

Corporation Counsel Archibald R. Watson Hall of Records 

Public Service Commissioner .. .William R. Wilcox, Chairman.. 154 Nassau St., 
First District 

Public Service Commissioner .. .Milo R. Maltbie 154 Nassau Street, New York. 

...John E. Eustis " " 

.. J. Sergeant Cram " " " 

...Geo. V. S. Williams 

LEGISLATIVE DEPARTMENT. 
Board of Aldermen (Queens County). 
The Legislative power of the City is vested in the Board of Aldermen, 
consisting of 73 members, elected for two years; in the President of the 



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Board, and in the Presidents of the five Boroughs. The following are the 
Aldermen from the Borough of Queens. 

Aldermen — Queens County. 

Newtown District 
Dist. No. Name Address 

Sixty-sixth George M. O'Connor (D) 33 Stevens Ave., L. I. City. 

Sixty-seventh Otto C. Gelbke (R) 59 Dill Place, Glendale. 

Sixty-eighth Alexander Dujat (D) Corona, L. I. 

Jamaica District 

Sixty-ninth Chas. Augustus Post (R) Lincoln St., Flushing, L. I. 

Seventieth YV. Augustus Shipley (R) 1 Union Hall St., Jamaica. 

LOCAL IMPROVEMENT BOARDS. 

The Aldermanic Districts of the City of New York are divided into 
25 local improvement districts, two of which are in the Borough of 
Queens known as the Newtown District and the Jamaica District. 

The President of the Borough as Chairman, and the Aldermen re- 
siding in each local improvement district, constitute the Local Board. The 
local boards are empowered to initiate such improvements as grading and 
paving streets and constructing sewers, subject to the approval of the Board 
of Estimate, if they involve an assessment. If the improvement involves a 
cost of more than $500,000, it must be approved by the Board of Alder- 
men. When the cost of flagging side walks, grading lots, or fencing lots is 
less than $2,000, the approval of the Board of Estimate and Apportion- 
ment is not necessary and it then becomes the duty of the Borough Presi- 
dent to execute the work. All petitions for local improvements should 
be addressed to the President of the Borough for presentation to the local 
Board having jurisdiction. 

BOROUGH GOVERNMENT. 

The Presidents of the five boroughs are elected at the same time as 
the Mayor; terms expiring Dec. 31, 1913. The President of the Borough 
presides over each local Board. The Borough Secretary is secretary of 
the local board. Each Borough President is a member of the Board of 
Aldermen and has the same right to vote as any member elected to the 
Board of Aldermen. The Borough President may appoint, and at his 
pleasure remove a Commissioner of Public Works for his Borough, whose 
duty it is to discharge all of the administrative powers of the President re- 
lating to streets, sewers, public buildings and supplies. The President of 
the Borough has cognizance and control of all matters relating to the im- 
provement and repair of public buildings, within his borough, except schools, 
hospitals, fire and police stations, penitentiaries, etc. He is empowered to 



52 Chamber of Commerce of the Borough of Queens. 

exercise the supervision vested in the city over the construction of buildings 
in his borough, except such powers as are directly vested in the Tenement 
House Commission, and to that end he is authorized to appoint a Superin- 
tendent of Buildings. The Borough Presidents are also members of the 
Board of Estimate and Apportionment, which control's the City's finances, 
in which board their votes have the following value: Borough President 
of Manhattan, 2; of Brooklyn, 2; and Bronx, Queens, and Richmond, 
each 1 — Total, 7. 

The total vote in that Board is 16; the remaining 9 votes are divided 
equally among the Mayor, Comptroller and President of the Board of 
Aldermen. In the Boroughs of Queens and Richmond the President of 
the boroughs in addition to their other powers, have jurisdiction over the 
cleaning of streets and the removal of ashes and garbage. 

Borough. 

Office Name Address 

President Maurice E. Connolly Jackson Av. & 5th St., L. I. C. 

Secretary Joseph Flannagan 

Pri-v. Secretary Hugh Hall " 

Consulting Engineer Foster Crowell 

Commissioner of Public Works . .Denis O'Leary* 

Supt. of Highway! G. How-land Leavitt 

" Buildings John \V. Moore 

Sewers John R. Higgins 

" Street Cleaning David Entholt 

Eng., Topographical Bare au ... Clifford B. Moore Long Island City. 



Congressman after March 4th, 1913. 

BOROUGH OF QUEENS. 

Wards. 

1st — Former Long Island City. Beginning at Newtown Creek and 
East River, N. E. to Lawrence Point, S. E. along East River to old Bow- 
ery Bay Road (including Berrians Island), S. W. to Newtown Road 
Woodside Avenue, Old Bowery Bay Road, and Calvary Cemetery Road 
to Newtown Creek to East River. 

2d — Former town of Newtown. Beginning at Newtown Creek and 
Calvary Cemetery Road, N. along Calvary Cemetery Road, Old Bowery 
Bay Road, Woodside Avenue and Old Bowery Bay Road; to Bowery Bay; 
South along Bowery Bay and Flushing Bay to Flushing Creek, W. from 
intersection of Union Turnpike and Flushing Creek to Newtown Road; 
and Long Island Railroad; thence to Terrace Avenue, Dexter Park to 
Miller Place and Crosby Avenue, West from intersection of Miller Place, 
and Crosby Avenue N. W., to Flushing Road and Newtown Creek to 
Calvary Cemetery Road. 

3rd — Former town of Flushing. Beginning at Flushing Bay and 
East River E. along E. River, Powells Cove, Whitestone Bay, Little Bay 



Chamber of Commerce of the Borough of Queens. 53 

and Little Neck Bay to Old House Road; S. E. and S. to a point one mile 
E. on Lawrence Avenue, from Little Neck Road; thence to intersection of 
Hamilton Avenue and Jericho Turnpike W. from Hamilton Avenue and 
Jericho Turnpike along Rocky Hill Road to Hillside Avenue W. to Union 
Avenue and Hushing Creek; North along said Creek and Flushing Bay to 
East River. 

4th — Former Town of Jamaica. Beginning at East Boundary of 26th 
Ward, Brooklyn, and Terrace Avenue, Dexter Park; E. to Newtown 
Road to Flushing Creek and Union Avenue E. to Rocky Hill Road and 
Hillside Avenue E. along Rocky Hill Road to Hamilton Avenue S. to Jer- 
icho Turnpike to Ocean Avenue and Rosedale Avenue, to mouth of Mott 
Creek, W. to center of Beach Channel to E. line of 26th Ward, Brooklyn; 
N. by easterly and boundary line of 26th Ward, Brooklyn, to Terrace Ave- 
nue and Dexter Park. 

5th— Former Village of Far Rockaway and that part of the town of 
Hempstead S. W. of Norton's Creek known as Rockaway Beach. Begin- 
ning at Rockaway Inlet, E. through center of Beach Channel to McNeil 
Avenue E. boundary of village of Far Rockaway; S. along McNeil Ave- 
nue to Bay View Avenue to Banister Creek to Atlantic Ocean; S. & W. 
along Atlantic Ocean to Rockaway Inlet. 

COUNTY GOVERNMENT. 

The County of Queens is the same as the Borough of Queens and has 
the following county officers: 

Office Name Address 

County Judge Burt J. Humphrey . . County- Court House, L. I. City. 

Sheriff George Emener *' 

District Attorney Matthew J. Smith " 

Commissioner of Jurors Thorndyke C. McKennee " 

County Clerk Leonard Ruoff 364 Fulton St., Jamaica. 

Surrogate Daniel Noble " " 

Public Administrator Randolph White 

^ 1 G. Schaef er / ~ rT ,, 

C °>»''"' |A . S . Ambler | Town Hal1 ' 

NEW YORK STATE LEGISLATURE. 
Senate. 

The County of Queens constitutes the second Senate District of the 
State of New York. The present Senator from this District is Bernard M. 
Patten (D) of Flushing. Senators are elected every two years (even 
years) . 

Assembly. 

Assemblymen are elected every year. The following are the Assem- 
blymen from Queens County for 1913. 



Chamber of Commerce of the Borough of Queens. 55 

Assembly Dist. Name Address 

First Samuel J. Burden (D) Long Island City. 

Second Alfred J. Kennedy (P) Whitestone, L. I . 

Third Alfred Benninger (D) Ridgewood. 

Fourth Howard Sutphin (D) Jamaica, L. I. 

U. S. House of Representatives. 

District. Congressman. 

First Lathrop Brown 

Second Denis O'Leary. 

Judicial Government (Borough of Queens.) 
Judge's Municipal Courts. 

District Name Address 

First T. C Kadien 115 5th St., Long Island City. 

Second J. M. Cragen Burz & Court Sts., Elmhurst. 

Third Alfred Denton 1908 Myrtle Ave., Glendale. 

Fourth J. F. McLaughlin Town Hall, Jamaica. 

Magistrates' Courts. 

City Magistrates — Joseph Fitch, John A. Leach, Harry Miller, 

James J. Conway. 

1st Dist — St. Mary's Lyceum, L. I. City. 
2nd Dist.- — Town Hall, Flushing. 
3d Dist. — Central Avenue, Far Rockaway. 
4th Dist — Town Hall, Jamaica. 

Children's Court. 

Held on Mondays and Thursday at 19 Hardenbrook Avenue, Ja- 
maica ; Clerk, Sydney Ollendorff. 

Court of Special Sessions. 

Second Division, Part III, held on Tuesdays, Town Hall, Jamaica. 
Clerk— H. S. Moran. 



56 



Chamber of Commerce of the Borough of Queens. 



Building Developments 




UEENS BOROUGH is building up at the rate of about a 
million and a half dollars in valuation a month. 

The building record of the Borough of Queens for 
the year 1911 exceeded that of any previous year of its 
history. The amount expended for new construction for 
the year ending December 31, 1911, was $22,212,000, 
which was an increase of $7,067,000, or 46 per cent., in 
excess of the total for 1910. 

The number of new buildings constructed in 1911 was 5,374, or an 
increase of 1,241 over the number constructed in 1910. The number of 
new buildings in Queens for 1911 was four times that of the Bronx, five 
times that of Richmond and exceeded Brooklyn's total by over 1,100. 

Compared with other divisions of New York City, the showing made 
by Queens is still more significant. While Queens eclipsed all of its pre- 
vious building records, all of the other Boroughs except Manhattan fell 
behind their previous records. The Borough of Bronx suffered a de- 
crease of $21,197,000, Brooklyn $10,057,000, and Richmond, $871,000. 

The following is a tabulation of the total number of new buildings 
built in the Borough of Queens since consolidation with the City of New 
York. It shows a total of 38,066 new buildings at a value of $148,- 
745,000. 

Growth in Buildings — Borough of Queens. 







Inc. 




Increase 


Per cent. 


Average 


'ear 


No. 


No. 


Value 


(Decrease — ) 


Inc. 


Value 


1898 


772 




$2,538,216 






$3,290 


1899 


1,011 


239 


3,341,269 


$803,053 


31.6 


3,310 


1900 


947 


—64 


2,920,991 


—420,278 


—12.6 


3,085 


1901 


1,450 


503 


4,710,492 


1,789,501 


61.3 


3,250 


1902 


1,231 


—219 


5,159,979 


44S.487 


9.5 


4,190 


1903 


1,321 


90 


4,829,929 


—330,050 


—6.4 


3,660 


1904 


1,923 


602 


8,863,774 


2,033,845 


42.1 


4,600 


1905 


3,251 


1,328 


12,827,960 


3,964,186 


44.7 


3,945 


1906 


4,070 


819 


17,003,216 


4,175,256 


32.5 


4,180 


1907 


3,929 


—141 


15,944,259 


—1,053,957 


—6.2 


4,060 


1908 


3.S96 


—33 


13,842,300 


—2,101,959 


—13.2 


3,560 


1909 


4,758 


862 


19,407,921 


5,565,621 


40. 


4,080 


1911) 


4,133 


—625 


15,144,377 


4,263,544 


22 I 


3,670 


1911 


5,374 
38/^6 


1,241 


22,212,258 


7,067,881 


46.6 


4,13(1 


Total, 


$148,745,941 




$3,900 


1912 


4,821 


—553 


$19,624,222 


—$1,570,036 




$4,070 



Chamber of Commerce of the Borough of Queens. 57 

Buildings in 1911 

No. Classification Cost Average Cost 

2658 Frame Buildings $7,657,641 $2,880 

1105 Brick Buildings 4,082,305 3,700 

70 Frame Store and Dwelling 194,900 2,775 

22i, Brick Store and Dwelling 1,003,850 4,45u 

30 Frame Tenements 135,500 4,500 

329 Brick Tenements 3,001,700 9,130 

121 Brick Store and Tenements 1,146,500 ?,470 

45 Amusement Halls 238,200 5,290 

2 Public Bldg. (Municipal) 90,000 45,000 

65 Factories and Workshops 1,223,200 18,820 

7 Churches 45,900 6,550 

7 Schools 467,000 66,700 

20 Hotels and Boarding Houses 404,000 20,200 

4 Hospitals 1,250,000 312,500 

37 Warehouses 714,485 19,300 

19 Office Buildings 185,14(1 9,750 

147 Garages 148,451 1,010 

122 Stables 79,980 655 

360 Other Frame Buildings 143,503 399 



5374 $22,212,255 $4,130 

Buildings in 1911 by If aids 

Ward Buildings Cost 

First 357 $3,571,237 

Second 1886 7,511,440 

Third 578 2,075,282 

Fourth 2117 6,938,115 

Fifth 436 2,116,181 

5374 

New Buildings 1909-11 in different Sections of Borough 



$22,212. 


255 


ih 




1911 


Total 1909-11 


34 


151 


138 


297 




113 


41 


194 



1909 1910 

Arverne 60 57 

Bavside 77 S2 

Belle Harbor 58 55 

Broadway (Flushing) 37 116 

Bushwick Junction 1 

Maspeth & Middle} 151 224 242 617 

Village J 

College Point 113 

Corona 177 

Douglaston 28 

Edgemere 7 

Elmhurst 54 

Far Rockawav 129 

Flushing . . . '. 282 

Forest Hills 

Hollis 72 

Jamaica 543 

Kew 

Laurel Hill 8 

Little Xeck 5 

Malba 17 

Morris Park 51 

Queens 45 

Richmond Hill 401 

Rockawav Beach 43X 

Rockawav Park 57 

St. Albans 9 

Springfield S3 

Whitestone 61 

Winfield 19 

Woodhaven Sect 422 

Woodside 9 



36 


42 


191 


547 


372 


1,096 


34 


33 


95 


15 


2S 


50 


96 


165 


315 


132 


45 


306 


180 


291 


753 


29 


113 


142 


81 


100 


253 


4S7 


701 


1,731 


31 


7 


3S 


6 


9 


23 


8 


20 


33 


19 


21 


57 


59 


325 


43 5 


85 


29 


209 


326 


527 


1,254 


330 


303 


1,071 


49 




106 


7 


11 


27 


44 


51 


178 


64 


45 


195 


29 


36 


284 


355 


387 


1,164 


26 


16 


51 



58 Chamber of Commerce of the Borough of Queens. 

New Buildings — Greater Neva York 

1898-1911 Inc. 

Borough No. Value 

Manhattan 18,577 $1,270,669,879 

Bronx 23,875 303,772,239 

Brooklyn 62,774 392,358,906 

Queens 38,066 1+8,745,941 

Richmond 7,701 27,998,883 



A'Vg. 1'alue 

$67,600 

12,720 

6,260 

3.900 

3,640 




Night View of Building of New York and Queens Electric Light and 
Power Co., Queensboro Bridge Plaza. 



Chamber of Commerce of the Borough of Queens. 



59 



Waterfront Developments 




HEN the plans for the reorganization of the development 
of New York Harbor have been completed, the impor- 
tance of the 200 miles of waterfront of the Borough of 
Queens will be greatly increased. Many improvements 
are now being made to the waterfront of this Borough by 
the City, State and National Governments and by private 
syndicates. Two great forces are impelling these changes; 
one is the Panama Canal and the other the State Barge Canal, both of 
which are near completion. The first will bring more commerce from the 
sea and the second more commerce from the interior, especially the Great 
Lakes section. The accompanying picture shows clearly their nature and 
iheir relation to the improvements of New York Harbor. 

The following tables give a comparison of the length of waterfront 
of the Borough of Queens and the other Boroughs of New York City. 



Borough 

1. Brooklyn . . 

2. Queens 

3. Bronx 

4. Richmond . . 

5. Manhattan 

Total . . 



WATER FRONT. 

AV«' York City 

Length of Natural Length Around Shore Length of Improve- 
ll'atcrfront (Shore Line, Bulkheads & ments (Distance 



Line & Bulkheads) 
200.64 miles 
196.83 

80.00 " 

57.11 

40.11 



Piers 
256.57 miles 
217.09 " 

S8.26 " 

81.33 

91.55 " 



574.69 



734.80 



Around Piers) 
55.93 miles 
20.26 " 
8.26 " 
24.22 " 
51.44 " 



160.11 



East River, Flushing Bay, 
etc 

Jamaica Bay & Atlantic 
Ocean 

Islands — Jamaica Bay .... 



Total 



Waterfront of Borough of Queens 

52.75 miles 64.99 miles 



S6.58 
57.50 



94.60 
57.50 



196.83 " 217.09 " 

Waterfront on East and North Side of Queens 



Section 

Newtown Creek 

East River (Newtown 

Creek to Lawrence Pt.) 
Lawrence Pt. to Flushing 

Creek 

Flushing Creek 

Flushing Creek to City 

Line 



Total 



12.24 miles 
8.02 " 



20.26 



33,515 feet 


38.S79 feet 


5,382 feet 


28,795 " 


47,150 " 


18,355 " 


47,385 " 
68,875 " 


70,168 " 
71,159 " 


22,783 " 
2,284 " 


99,996 " 


115,741 " 


15,745 " 


278,566 " 
52.5 miles 


343,115 " 
64.8 miles 


64,549 " 
12.24 miles 



60 Chamber of Commerce of the Borough of Queens. 

Waterfront, Jamaica Bay and Atlantic Ocean 

Jamaica Bay (Mainland) 191,923 feet 191,923 feet 

Jamaica Bav (Rockaway 

Beach) . .' '. . . 20S,885 " 241,040 " 32,155 feet 

Jamaica Bav (Islands) 303,793 " 303,793 " 

Atlantic Ocean 56,085 " 66,343 " 10,295 " 

Total 760,686 " 803,136 " 42,450 " 

143.9 miles 151.9 miles 8.02 miles 

NEWTOWN CREEK. 

Newtown Creek, flowing into the East River, divides for a distance 
of about four miles the Boroughs of Brooklyn and Queens, and is said to 
be the busiest avenue of water traffic of its length in the world. The volume 
of products floated over its waters, 2,675,000 tons valued at $90,000,000 
in 1903, had increased by 1909, according to the statistics gathered by the 
United States Government to 5,000,000 tons valued at $253,000,000. It 
was a miscellaneous assortment of merchandise including coal, lumber, iron, 
steel and products, petroleum and products, copper and products and many 
other articles. The products above mentioned were classified in the Federal 
Report as follows: 

Tons Value 

General Merchandise 472,280 $33,094,600 

Copper and Products 335,000 100,000,000 

Coal and Other Fuel 1,447,923 5,791,692 

Building and Road Material 1,047,690 7,333,830 

Manufactures 12,708 381,240 

Mineral Products 1,534,922 103,952,879 

Farm Products 71,000 1,757,250 

Ice 100,005 400,420 

Fish 11,500 2S1.750 

Ashes, Garbage, etc 80,000 10,000 

Total 5,133,628 $253,003,661 

The following table shows the traffic on the Creek for a period of 
8 years from 1903 to 1910 inclusive. 

Average Value 

Year Short Tons Value Per Ton 

1903 2,675,025 $90,535,640 $33.80 

1904 3,771,726 108,313,377 28.70 

1905 3,428,404 130,812,974 40.40 

1906 2,803,380 214,714,751 77.00 

1907 3,108,374 175,229,346 56.40 

1908 4,181,528 229,994,000 55.00 

1909 5,113,628 253,003,661 49.50 

1910 3,861,852 139,378,323 36.00 

1911 5,990,266 

The amount of traffic on Newtown Creek is also shown by the number 
of times a day that the bridges are open and the number of boats passing 
through which for one day was as follows: 



Chamber of Commerce of the Borough of Queens. 6i 

Bridge Openings Boats Passing 

Vernon Avenue 44 110 

Greenpoint Avenue 62 134 

Meecker Avenue 41 73 

Grand Avenue 10 17 

Borden Avenue 4 6 

The tonnage on Newtown Creek for 1910 was greater than the com- 
bined tonnage of all the canals of the State of New York. 

East River — Hearing have been held by the U. S. Board of 
Engineers for Rivers and Harbors upon the necessity for an appropriation 
necessary to dredge either a 30 foot or a 35 foot channel from the Battery 
to Long Island Sound. It is estimated that this proposed improvement will 
cost over $30,000,000 and will include the removal of shoals and reefs in 
the channel and along the shores, and the widening and deepening of the 
channel at Hell Gate. This improvement will better the shipping facilities 
of the various factories now located along the river front. 

Flushing Bay — The United States Government has plans for the 
improvement of Flushing Bay up to the Main Street Bridge at an estimated 
















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Proposed Harbor Improvements. Showing Particularly the Canal to be Bun I 
Between Flushing ami Jamaica Bays. 



62 Chamber of Commerce of the Borough of Queens. 

cost of $235,000 and $5,500 annually for maintenance expenses after com- 
pletion. 

Flushing Bay-Jamaica Bay Canal — A Bill will be re-introduced 
this year in the State Legislature requesting an appropriation to pay for 
the expense of a survey of the proposed Canal connecting Flushing Bay with 
Jamaica Bay. It is estimated that the cost of such a Canal would be 
$12,000,000. The Canal would connect Flushing River with Cornell 
Creek, a stream running into Jamaica Bay. Through the center of the 
Borough where land is over 125 feet above sea level it has been proposed 
to construct a tunnel for about two miles. This Canal will, in conjunction 
with the Bronx Kills and Harlem River improvements, provide a direct 
channel for barges from the Hudson River, across Queens Borough to 
Jamaica Bay and the sea. It is really an essential part of the improve- 
ment of Flushing Bay enabling vessels to pass from the Hudson River to 
Jamaica Bay without having to pass into the Atlantic Ocean or through 
Hell Gate. 

Flushing Creek — The initial step towards this Canal is the improve- 
ment of Flushing River, hearings upon which have been held at the 
request of the Chamber by the Dock Commissioner of the City of New 
York and the Borough President. The abutting owners have agreed to 
a 250 foot wide stream from the mouth of the Creek to three miles inland, 
and have agreed to cede enough land to the City to bring about this 
improvement. Bulkhead lines have already been adopted by the United 
States Government for this stream, but modifications will be requested 
which will eliminate the curves and give a straight line channel from its 
mouth to the head of tide water. As soon as the new bulkhead lines are 
adopted efforts will be made to have the United States Government dredge 
this channel. 

Jamaica Bay — The City, State and Nation have all combined to 
develop a great port at Jamaica Bay. The State of New York ceded all 
right and title it had to land under water in the Bay to the City of New 
York; and the City has made an initial appropriation of $1,000,000 
towards this improvement ($34,000 to be spent for plans and surveys, 
$750,000 for purchase of land for marginal streets and basins and $216,000 
for improvements such as bulkheading, etc.) ; and the National Govern- 
ment has made an appropriation for 1912-13 of $300,000 towards dredg- 
ing the channel. Work has been started by the Government for dredging 
an inside channel from Barren Island to Milk Creek Basin. The Atlantic 
Gulf and Pacific Dredging Co. have received this contract, and the section 
to be dredged is \]/2 miles in length, 500 feet in width and 18 feet in depth. 



Chamber of Commerce of the Borough of Queens. 63 

Barge Canal Terminals — The State in selecting terminals for the 
Barge Canal has perceived the advantage of securing locations where 
ocean going vessels can meet and receive the cargoes from the Erie Canal 
and where large warehouses, elevators and store houses can be erected 
inexpensively as trans-shipment requires a central point where cargoes can 
be tended and stored. Such terminals have been selected in Queens at 
Newtown Creek, and Jamaica Bay by the State Barge Canal Terminal 
Commission and the Chamber is urging the location of a similar terminal 
at Flushing Bay. 

Freight Terminals — The City of New York has started construc- 
tion on a large freight terminal on the East River at the foot of Nott 
Avenue, Long Island City, which will include in its layout a public pier 
and freight terminal with warehouses and trackage similar to freight ter- 
minals provided at other points along the harbor line. Adjacent to this 
municipal freight terminal will be a large terminal known as the "Queens- 
boro Terminal" operated by the Brooklyn Eastern District Terminal Co. 
from which point freight can be shipped to any part of the United States 
or via boats to all parts of the world. 

The Degnon Realty and Terminal Co. have their development along 
Newtown Creek on what is known as Dutch Kills Creek. This Company 
has dredged channels, built bulkheads, filled in land, graded streets and 
sewered their large property of 125 acres in extent with the object of 
Inning the sites used for factories and warehouses. This property is 
adjacent to the Sunnyside yards of the Pennsylvania Railroad. 

The Flushing Bay Improvement Company is filling in 300 acres of 
the marshes between Corona and Flushing with ashes gathered under 
contract with the City of New York, and will develop as a factory section. 



64 Chamber of Commerce of the Borough of Queens. 



Electric Companies and Rates 

Territory Output 1911 

Company Served in KJl'JIrs. Stations and Offices 

New York & Queens Electric 1st, 2nd, 3rd Main Station — Astoria. Sub-sta- 

Light & Power Co & 4th Wards 12,916,843 tions at L. I. City, Flushing, Bay- 

side, Jamaica and Maspeth. 
Queensboro Gas k Electric 5th Ward 

Company (Rockaways) 2,S63,66S Far Rockaway 

Rates. 

New York £s? Queens Electric Light & Power Co. — Retail Lighting 
Rate, 12c. per k.w.h.; Incandescent Special Rate, 10c. per k.w.h. ; Power 
Rate, 10c. per h. p. h., with deductions from 12 1-2 per cent, to 70 per cent. 
and 33 1-3 per cent, based on monthly consumption from 100 h. p. h. to 
50,000 h. p. h.; Short Term Power Rate, 10c. per h. p. h., with deductions 
from 12 1-2 per cent, to 50 per cent, and 33 1-3 per cent., based on monthly 
consumption of 100 h. p. h. to 50,000 h. p. h. 

Queensboro Gas eff Electric Co. — Retail Lighting, 13c. per k.w.h.; 
Power Rate, 10c. per k.w.h., with deductions from 5 per cent, to 60 per 
cent, based on monthly consumption from 100 k.w.h. to 1,250 k.w.h. 

Detailed Rates Will Be Given Upon Application to Com panics or the 
Chamber of Commerce. 

New York & Queens Electric Light C5 5 Power Co. — This company 
was formed in 1900 by the consolidation of the various local companies 
operating in the various towns of Queens County prior to consolidation as 
part of Greater New York. Its business has increased approximately 1,000 
per cent, during the last twelve years. Its rates are as low, if not lower, 
than can be secured anywhere in the State of New York from companies 
generating electric current by steam. It offers exceptional facilities to the 
manufacturer for power as well as for lighting and heating of residences. 



Chamber of Commerce of the Borough of Queens. 65 



Gas Companies and Rates 

Miles of 

Territory Rate per Output 1911 Main Jan. 

Company Served M.cu.ft. M.cu.ft. 1, 1912 Location of Plant 

Astoria Light, Heat & Power Co. 1st Ward 4,310,768 .70 Astoria, L. I. 

East River Gas Co " $ .80 404,324 74.53 Ravensvvood, L. I. 

Newtown Gas Co 2nd Ward 1.00 584,724 138.42 Newtown, L. I. 

New York & Queens Gas Co... 3rd Ward " 184,720 86.09 Flushing, L. I. 

Jamaica Gas Light Co 4th Ward " 124,355 61.54 Jamaica, L. I. 

Richmond Hill & Queens Gas 

Light Co " " 114,837 28.5 

Woodhaven Gas Light Co " " 175,985 64.17 

Queensboro Gas. & Electric Co.. 5th Ward $1.10 183,036 102.28 Far Rockaway, L. 1. 

The Astoria Light, Heat and Power Co., located in the Northwest 
corner of the Astoria section, sells practically all of its output to the Con- 
solidated Gas Co. of New York, which supplies the Boroughs of Man- 
hattan and the Bronx. The entire plant is said to be one of the largest 
in the world. Unit No. 1 produces 20,000,000 cubic feet of gas daily, and 
one-half of unit No. 2, which has recently been completed, has a capacity 
of 20,000,000 more. The entire 9 units of which the plant is to be com- 
posed will have a producing capacity of 250,000,000 cubic feet of gas daily. 
Each unit is a manufacturing city in itself constructed at a cost of 
$10,000,000 to. $12, 000, 000, and it is estimated that the entire plant will 
represent an outlay of $80,000,000 to $100,000,000 and will spread over 
an area of 350 acres. 

The Fast River Gas Company is a subsidiary of the New Amsterdam 
Gas Co., which supplied in 1911 2,743,450 M. cubic feet to Manhattan 
in addition to that supplied in Queens. 

The Newtown Gas Co., the Jamaica Gas Light Co., the Richmond 
Hill and Queens Gas Light Company and the Woodhaven Gas Co. are 
all subsidiary companies of the Brooklyn Union Gas Co. The Queensboro 
Gas & Electric Co. operates solely in the 5th Ward and supplies both gas 
and electricity to the section around Rockaway Peninsula, which is outside 
of the $.80 zone provided by law. They formerly charged $1.25 to $1.35 
per M. cubic feet and voluntarily agreed to a reduction to $1.10. 



66 Chamber of Commerce of the Borough of Queens. 



Queensboro Bridge 



History. 

December 2, 1899. — The general plan for a cantilever bridge from Second 
Avenue, between 59th and 60th Streets, Manhattan, across 
Blackwell's Island to intersection with Jane Street, Long Island 
City, was submitted to the Secretary of War. 

November 15, 19U0. — Ordinance authorizing construction approved by 
Mayor of New York City. 

February 23, 1901. — Plans were approved by War Department. 

March 21, 1901. — Board of Aldermen authorized condemnation proceed- 
ings for the land required. 

June 27, 1901. — Contract was let for construction of the six masonry piers 
to Ryan & Parker for $745,547. 

July 19, 1901. — Construction of piers was commenced. 

February 10, 1903. — Plans for bridge approved by Municipal Art Com- 
mission. 

November 20, 1903. — Contract let to Pennsylvania Steel Co. for construc- 
tion of steel super-structure at $5,132,985. 

December 31, 1903. — Contract let to Williams Engineering & Contracting 
Co. for towers on piers for $685,000. 

June 10, 1904. — Construction of piers completed at total cost of $858,565. 

June 15, 1908. — Contract of Pennsylvania Steel Co. for steel super-struc- 
ture completed. 

December 1, 1908. — Total amount of contracts awarded, $11,974,402. 

March 30, 1909. — Bridge opened for pedestrians and vehicles. 

June 12, 1909. — Celebration of completion of bridge commenced. 

September 19, 1909. — Operation of surface cars over bridge began. 

July 18, 1911. — Bridge tolls abolished by Board of Aldermen. 

Total length of bridge from east side of Second Avenue, Manhattan, 
to Jackson Avenue, Queens, including Queens Plaza, 8,601 feet. The 
length of spans are: Manhattan anchor spans, 469.5 feet; west channel 
span, 1,182 feet; island span, 459 feet; east channel span, 984 feet; Queens 
anchor span, 459 feet. The clear height over East River channels is 135 
feet. 




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Chamber of Commerce of the Borough of Oueens. 



Water Supply 




HE total average daily consumption of water of the 
Borough of Queens for the year 1911 was 32,900,000 
gallons, of which 28,000,000 gallons was supplied by pri- 
vate companies and 4,900,000 supplied by the city from 
its municipal plants. 

The first move was taken by the city toward the ac- 
quisition of the private water companies of the Borough 
of Queens on June 6, 1912, when the Board of Estimate adopted a report 
of Chief Engineer Nelson P. Lewis, recommending the appointment of a 
commission consisting of one lawyer and two engineers, experts in the ap- 
praisel of water-works, to report to the Board on this subject. 

The City of New York has made ample provision for the Borough 
of Queens in its preparation of the comprehensive plans for the distribu- 
tion of the Catskill water supply. A contract has been awarded for a big 
main artery of supply leading from Brooklyn to Hoffman Boulevard ami 
Fisk Avenue, in the heart of Queens. This main will be 48 inches in diam- 
eter and will under the proposed pressure have a capacity from 40,000,000 
to 50,000,000 gallons per day. This supply will be ready by 1915. Pro- 
vision is also being made to lay a 48-inch water main in connection with 
the Consolidated Gas Company's tunnel from East 71st Street under East 
River to Webster Avenue, Long Island City. Capacity of this main is 
estimated to be 15,000,000 gallons daily, and will give immediate supply 
to Long Island City of the Croton water supply. 



Private Water Companies 



Sections Supplied Ward 
1 



Company 

Citizens Water Supply Co., Long Island City. . . . 
Glendale, Maspeth, ] 
Corona, Ridgewood, \ 
Newtown, Elmhurst, J 
Third Ward 

Bowery Bay Impt. Co North Beach 

Urban Water Co Woodside 

Jamaica Water Supply Co. Jamaica, H o 1 1 i s , 
Queens and Spring- 
field 

Woodhaven W.Supplv Co..Woodhaven, Ozone 
Park, Rich. Hill.... 

Queens Co. Water Co Rockaway Beach and 

Far Rockaway .... 

Total 



Average daily 

Supply 1911 

8,000,000 gals. 

9,800,000 " 

750,000 " 

1,000,000 

3,750,000 
1,850,000 
2,850,000 



Remarks 
Through City Mains 

private 

City 
Private Use 
Through Priv. Mains 



28,000,000 



Chamber of Commerce of the Borough of Queens. 69 

Municipal Plants 

Average daily 
Station Section Supplied Ward Suf>ftly 1911 Remarks 

Va.i Dam & Nott Ave Long Island City.... 1 • , ,„„, „,.„ , T . , „. ., . 

^ „ , i I,,, ii « « i ' 1,000,000 gals. Through Citv Mams 

Dryer & Laurel HII .... 1 ) " 6 

Flushing Flushing, College 

Point, etc 3 "J 

Bayside (Oakland Lake) Bayside, Douglaston, I 3 900 000 " " (i " 

etc 3 ( ' ' 

Whitestone Not in use at present. 3 ' 



Total 



4,900,000 




Astoria Light, Heat and Power Company's Plant. 




Norton Pt. 
Seagate 
Conett Island 




Queens Borough 
Facts 



Estimated population, Jan- 
uary, 1913—359,891. 

Assessed valuation, 1913 — 
$460,377,523 (not including 
special franchises). A gain 
of over $350,000,000 over 
1899. 

Area — 129.5 square miles, or 
40 per cent, of the area of 
the C'itv of Greater New 
York. 

Value of manufactured prod- 
ucts fori 1899— $ 35,427,000 
year] 1909— $151, 6S0.O00 
an increase of 314 per 
cent, in ten years. 

Ranks 17th among principal 
cities in the United States, 
and 4th in New York State 
as to value of manufac- 
tured products (exceeded 
only by Manhattan, Brook- 
lyn and Buffalo). 

Over 196 miles of natural 
waterfront and 20 miles of 
docks on Newtown Creek, 
East River, Jamaica Bay 
and Atlantic Ocean. 

Plans filed for 4.S21 new- 
buildings in 1912, at an 
estimated cost of $19,642,- 
222, which was as great as 
any city in the United 
States, except Greater New 
York, Philadelphia, Chica- 
go and San Francisco. 

968 acres of public parks. 

Over 10 miles of beaches on 
Atlantic Ocean. 



10. 



10 National Banks, 15 State 
Banks, 2 Trust Companies 
and 4 Savings Banks, with 
total resources of over 
$150,000,000. 

11. Lowest death rate of any 

Borough of New York City, 
or of the first 20 cities in 
size in United States. 

12. Over 100 miles of repaved 

highways in 1912. 

13. Circulation of Public Library 

for year ending June 30, 
1912, was 14th largest in 
United States. 

14. Estimated number of manu- 

facturing establishments in 
1912—1,000. 



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( I1A.M lil.K OF OlMMKRCE OF TI1K I5()R( ll'CH OF Ul'ICKN.S. 



Topographical Map 




NDER the Charter of the City of New York, all improve- 
ments such as legal opening of streets, drainage systems, 
sewers, regulation of highways, subways, etc., must be 
based upon a Topographical Map adopted by the city au- 
thorities. This map is the foundation upon which the 
future city is built. 

The accompanying map shows clearly the portions of 
the Borough that have been tentatively and finally mapped to date. The 



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Chamber of Commerce of the Borough of Queens. 71 

co-ordinates shown are about one mile apart. This work is done under the 
direction of the Topographical Bureau, which scientifically plans the streets 
and grades in an economical and logical manner so that in the future the 
large population, with its increased traffic and business, can be taken care of 
along the lines planned for this growth. 

Upon consolidation as part of the City of Greater New York on 
January 1, 1898, the only part of the Borough of Queens that had been 
officially topographically mapped and adopted was the 1st Ward, or the 
old Long Island City, which had been mapped in 1871-73 and was recog- 
nized by the Greater New York Charter. 

Approximately 76,000 acres out of the total area of 82,883 acres of 
the Borough will be mapped. The following is a tabulation of the amount 
tentatively mapped and finally mapped to date: 

Tentatively Mapped 

Jan. 1, 1898— Oct. 4, 1911 21,635 acres 

Oct. 4, 1911— Dec. 4, 1912 24,242 " 

Total 45,877 acres, or 61% of Borough 

By the end of 1913 it is expected that the entire Borough will be tentatively mapped. 

Finally Mapped 

ran. 1, 1898— Oct. 4, 1911 13,946 acres 

Oct. 4, 1911— Dec. 4, 1912 12,088 " 

26,034 acres, or 36% of Borough 

it is estimated by the end of 1913, 10 to 15 per cent, more of the Borough will be finally 
mapped. 



Chamber of Commerce of the Borough of Oueens. 



Population — Borough of Queens 

HE Borough of Queens in 1910 had a population of 284,- 
041, and considered as a City by itself ranked 19th in 
size among the principal cities of the United States, hav- 
ing jumped from 25th in rank in 1900 and 30th in rank 
in 1890. The population in 1910 was greater than any 
of the States of Arizona, Delaware, Nevada or Wyoming. 
The increase in population for the 20 years from 1890 to 
1910 was 195,000 or 224 per cent. It is estimated that the increase in 
population for the next ten years to 1920 will be over 600,000 or an in- 
crease of over 200 per cent. 

The following table shows the relation in population of the Borough 
of Queens to the principal cities of the United States: 




Rank 

1st 

2nd 

3rd 

4th 

5 th 

6th 

7th 

8th 

9 th 

10th 

11th 

12th 

13th 

14th 

15th 

16th 

17th 

18th 

19th 

20th 

21st 

22nd 

23 rd 

24th 

25th 

26th 

27th 

28th 

29th 

30th 

31st 



City 

New York City 

Chicago 

Philadelphia 

St. Louis 

Boston, Mass 

Cleveland, Ohio 

Baltimore, Md 

Pittsburg, Pa 

Detroit, Mich 

Buffalo, N. Y 

San Francisco, Cal 

Milwaukee, Wis 

Cincinnati, Ohio 

Newark, N. J 

New Orleans 

Washington, D. C 

Los Angeles, Cal 

Minneapolis, Minn 

BOROUGH OF QUEENS. 

Jersey Citv, N. J 

Kansas City, Kans 

Seattle, Wash 

Indianapolis, Ind 

Providence, R. I 

Louisville, Ky 

Rochester, N. Y 

St. Paul, Minn 

Denver, Col 

Portland, Ore 

Columbus, Ohio 

Toledo, Ohio 



Population 
1910 1900 



4,766,883 
2,185,283 
1,549,008 
687,029 
670.5S5 
560,663 
558,445 
533,905 
465,766 
423,715 
416,912 
373,857 
363,591 
347,469 
339,057 
331,069 
318,198 
301,408 
2S2.H41 

267,779 
24S.341 
237,194 
233,650 
224,336 
223 92S 
2is|l49 
214,774 
213,381 
207,214 
181,511 
168,497 



3,437,202 
1,698,575 

1,293,697 
575.23S 

560,892 
381,768 
508,957 
451,512 
285,704 
352,387 
342,782 
285,315 
325,902 
246,070 
287,104 
278,817 
11)2,479 
202,718 
152,999 

206,433 
163,752 

S0,671 
169,164 
175,597 
204,731 
162,608 
163,065 
133,859 

90,426 
125,560 
131,822 



Increase in 

Numbers 

1,329,681 

486,708 

255,311 

111,791 

109,693 

178,895 

49,528 

82,393 

180,062 

71.32S 

74,130 

8S.542 

37,689 

101,399 

51,971 

52,351 

216,719 

98,690 

129,042 

61,346 
S4.5S9 

156,523 
64.4S6 
4S.730 
19,197 
55,541 
51,709 
79,522 

116,788 
55.9SS 
36,675 



Per cent. 
Increase 

3S.7 
2S.7 
19.7 
19.4 
19.3 
46.9 
9.7 
IS. 2 
63.0 
20.2 
21.6 
31.0 
11.6 
41.3 
1S.1 
18.8 
211.5 
48.5 
S4.5 

29.6 

51.7 
194.0 

3S.1 

27.8 
9.4 

34. 

31. 

59. 
124. 

44. 



2 
.1 
.4 
.0 
.6 
27.8 



Estimated population 1912 is 334,297. 



The following table gives the population of the towns comprising 
the County and Borough of Queens from 1800. Queens County consisted 
of five townships, all of which, with the exception of part of Hemp- 



Chamber of Commerce of the Borough of Queens. 73 

stead were consolidated as the Borough of Queens into Greater New York 
City in 1897. The part of the town of Hempstead now in the Borough 
of Queens is known as the Fifth Ward or the Rockaway Section. 

COUNTY OF QUEENS 

Uong Island Citv was formed in 1870 from the town of Newtown. 
The other towns were formed in 1788. 

Year 

Ward Township 1_S00 1810 1_S25 1830 1840 1850 I860 

1st Long Island Citv .... .... .... .... .... •••■ 

2nd Newtown ' 2,312 2,437 2,478 2,610 5,054 7,208 13,725 

3rd Flushing 1,818 2,230 2,325 2,820 4,124 5,376 10,189 

4th Jamaica 1,661 2,110 2,401 2,376 3,781 4,247 6,515 

5th Hempstead and Rock- 

awavs .... .... .... .... .... .... 

Ward Township 1870 1S75 1SS0 1890 1900 1910 

1st Long Island Citv 15,587 17,129 30,506 48,272 61.763 

2nd Newtown 20,724 10,614 9,804 17,549 40,903 105,219 

3rd Flushing 14,650 15,357 15,906 19.S03 30,761 37,171 

4th Jamaica 7,745 8,983 10,088 14,441 71,193 67,412 

5th Hempstead and Rock- 

aways .... 23,756 27,066 12,476 

The following table gives the population of each Borough of Greater 
New York from 1790, according to United States Census reports and also 
an estimate of the future population of each Borough up to 1950 at which 
time it is predicted that the Borough of Queens will have a population as 
great as that of the Boroughs of Manhattan. Bronx, and Richmond com- 
bined. 



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Parks — Borough of Queens 




of Queens for 1912: 



HE Park system of the Borough of Queens was formerly 
under the jurisdiction of the Brooklyn Park Department, 
hut is now under a separate Park Commissioner, Walter 
G. Eliot, as provided by a law passed in 1911. The office 
of the Park Department of the Borough of Queens is in 
the northeasterly end of Forest Park. The following is 
a tabulation of the parks and their areas in the Borough 



Name Area in Acres Location 

Forest Park 536.00 Richmond Hill k Woodhaven 

Televvana (or Rockaway Beach Pk.) J62.5S Rockaway Beach 

Kissena Lake Park 65.00 Flushing 

Highland Park 59.60 East New York 

Rockaway Park 17.87 Rockaway Beach 

Rockaway " (Beach Frontage) 17.50 

King's Park 11.50 Jamaica 

Upland-Jamaica 5.50 

Rainey Park 4.05 Astoria 

Linden " 3.00 Corona 

Wayanda Park 2.00 Queens 

Coliege Point Park 1.14 ..College Point 



Flushing 
Ashmead 
Unnamed 



Poppenhausen 
Unnamed 



1.02 Flushing 

.27 Jamaica 

.11 Long Island City 

.08 

.05 " 

.01 College Point 

.01 Long Island City 

.01 



Total Area, 96S.J4 Acres. 




View i\ II ichl \\i' Park 



76 



Chamber of Commerce of the Borough of Queens. 




Vernon Avenue Bridge Over Newtown Creek. 



Forest Park, comprising 536 acres, is the largest park in the 
Borough and is 10 acres larger than the celebrated Prospect Park in Brook- 
lyn, and at present is covered with forest, as its name implies. Owing to 
its long and narrow shape it is available for an immense number of people, 
occupying as it does a wide area. It has one of the best eighteen-hole golf 
links that can be found in any park, and is provided with a handsome club 
house with lockers and conveniences, all of which are open to the public 
free under proper restrictions. From the ridge of this park there is a 
magnificent view extending out over Jamaica Bay to the Rockaways and 
the Atlantic Ocean. 

Telewanna or Rockaway Beach Park, comprising 263 acres, 
was acquired March 21, 1912, by the City of New York and consists of a 
strip of land along Rockaway Beach on the Atlantic Ocean. Its purpose is 
to provide a reservation at the seashore for hospitals and an immense play- 
ground for water sports by the public. This park is a great strip of sand 
dunes extending west from the most westerly of the Rockaways, known as 
Neponsit and Belle Harbor, and covers the westerly end of the Rockaway 
peninsula. It extends from Jamaica Bay on the north to Atlantic Ocean 



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77 



on the south, extending for nearly a mile east and west. The width of the 
park is about half a mile. 

RoCKAWAY Park was ceded to the city within recent years and has a 
frontage on Atlantic Ocean of \1 ]/> acres. It consists of nearly a half-mile 
of seafront, bordered by detached residences where grass lawns come to the 
edge of the boardwalk. 

Highland Park, comprising approximately 60 acres, is situated on 
the border line between Brooklyn and Queens, the principal part being in 
the Borough of Queens. It is a picturesque park, having within it the early 
Dutch house known as the Schenck Mansion, a distributing reservoir, base 
ball, fields, music stands, where concerts are given during the summer, and 
very attractive walks and places of rest. 

KlSSENA Park, comprising about 65 acres, part of which is a lake 
fed by springs, is between Flushing and Jamaica. This park is in its natural 
state and is capable of wonderful development. 

In addition to the above parks, there are several small parks from 
one-half acre to five acres in extent throughout the Borough. The hand- 
somest is King's Park in the centre of Jamaica, which contains the Colonial 
homestead of Gov. John A. King, built 125 years ago. This building is 
now occupied as a Colonial museum in charge of the King Manor Associa- 
tion, comprised of public-spirited men and women of Jamaica and vicinity. 
On the hillside of Jamaica there is a small park of 5 l / 2 acres. Similar 
parks are also located in College Point, Corona, Flushing and elsewhere 
that are available as playgrounds for the children of these sections. 




Municipal Club House at Forest Park 



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Chamber of Commerce of the Borough of Queens. 



Assessments and Assessed Valuations 




OR the purpose of assessment the Borough of Queens is 
divided into eighteen districts to each of which a deputy 
tax commissioner is assigned. These deputies are super- 
vised by a Deputy Tax Commissioner in charge of the 
office of the Borough of Queens. The following shows 
the steps necessary in making up the assessment for 1913. 



April 1st, 1912; Deputy Tax Commissioners commence to assess real 
estate. 

Oct. 1st, 1912; Assessments completed and the books of assessment called 
"The Annual Record of Assessed Valuation of Real Estate" are 
open for public inspection. 

Nov. 16///, 1912; Objections to assessments must be filed prior to this 
date. 

Dec-Jan. 1912-13; Tax Commissioners pass upon applications for reduc- 
tions in assessments filed prior to Nov. 16th, 1912. 

Feb. 1st, 1913; Annual Record is closed for correction and preparation of 
Assessment Rolls. 

Mar. 1st, 1913; Assessment Rolls delivered to the Board of Aldermen. 

Mar. 3rd, 1913; Board of Aldermen fixes Tax Rate. 

Mar. 28///, 1913; Tax Department delivers Assessment Rolls with taxes 
against each parcel to the Receiver of Taxes. 

May, 1913 ; Half of tax is payable in May. If second half is paid a rebate 
is allowed at the rate of 4 per cent, per annum to Nov. 1, 1913. 

June 1st, 1913; Interest commences to run at 7 per cent, per annum 
from May 1st on the unpaid taxes due in May. 

Nov. 1st, 1913 ; First and second half of taxes is payable. 

Dec. 1st, 1913; Interest commences to run at 7 per cent, on unpaid taxes 
due in November. 



Chambek of Commerce of the Borough of Queens. 

ASSESSED VALUATION AND TAX RATE. 

Borough of Queens. 



79 













Personal 




Tax Rate 


Total Real 


Annual 


Per Cent. 


Properly 


Year 


Per $100 


Estate Assmt. 


Increase 


Increase 


Assmt. 


1S99 


$3.2744 


$103,752,600 

104,427,772 






$6,314,032 
5,498,681 


1900 


2.3421 


$675,172 


.65 


1901 


2.3570 


107,179,620 


2,751, 84S 


2.63 


10,826,810 


19(12 


2.31S7 


108,859,704 


1,680,084 


1.56 


9,026,134 


1903 


1.4750 


123,7S1,723 


14,922,019 


12.07 


10,176,900 


1904 


1.5722 


131,379,723 


7,598,000 


6.17 


7,477,425 


1905 


1.5552 


140,404,990 


9,025,267 


6.86 


9,094,738 


1906 


1.5548 


159,446,205 


19,041,215 


13.55 


'',694,428 


1907 


1.5339 


217,66S,775 


58,222,570 


36.4 


11,191,262 


1908 


1.6603 


296,45S,9S0 


78,790,205 


26.5 


9,908,830 


- 1909 


1.7253 


308,112,605 


11,653,625 


3.8 


9,673,200 


1910 


1.S1079 


334,563,960 


26,451,355 


7.9 


5,35S,480 


1911 


1.73645 


446,569,352 


112,005,392 


33.4 


5,339,875 


1912 


1.84 


456,750,539 


10,181,187 


2.2 


6,396,750 


*1913 




460,377,523 
not include special 










franchises. 






* Tentative and does 






ASSESSED VALUATIONS— Borough of Queens 














Total Real 










Real Estate 


Estate & R. E. 




Ordinary 


Value of 


Special 


°f . 


Corpor. & 


Year 


Land Value 


Improvements 


Franchises 


Corporations 


Franchises 


1S99 


No 


$96,890,100 
96,087,980 




$6,861,500 
4,303,075 


$103,752,600 
104,427,872 


1900 


Separate 


$4,036,817 


1901 


Land 


97,029,826 


5,768,494 


4,381,300 


107,179,620 


1902 


Values 


99,263,154 


4,331,650 


5,264,900 


108,859,704 


1903 




113,731,213 


5,528,000 


4,522,510 


123,781,723 


19H4 


$76,588,315 


45,147,250 


5,496,600 


4,147,060 


131,379,225 


1905 


79,803,605 


50,113,225 


6,232,600 


4,255,560 


140,404,990 


1906 


81,2711,450 


65,144,S45 


8,3 33;300 


4,697,610 


159,446,205 


1907 


123,585,700 


73,354,150 


11,698,700 


8,030,225 


217,668,775 


190S 


182,629,206 


88,111,404 


15,902,070 


9,816,300 


296,458,980 


1909 


185,899,546 


96,557,609 


14,876,700 


10,778,750 


308,112,605 


1910 


200,180,317 


107,770,243 


14,917,800 


11,695,600 


334,563,960 


1911 


276,089,172 


131,268,935 


16,400,400 


22,810,845 


446,569,352 


1912 


277,644,346 


140,794,590 


15,031,989 


23,279,614 


456,750,539 


*1913 


284,480,561 
* Tentative. 


155,562,262 




26,334,700 











ASSESSMENTS FOR LOCAL IMPROVEMENTS. 

When land is condemned for public purposes awards are made by 
three Commissioners appointed by the Supreme Court who also spread 
the assessments to pay for the improvements. When improvements are- 
made in an open street such as regulation, grading, paving, and sewering, 
the assessments to pay for the improvement are laid by the department of 
Taxes and Assessments. Local improvements are initiated by the Local 
Improvement Boards. 

A new corporation known as the Realty Notice Corporation, 51 
Chambers Street, New York, has been formed to notify owners of prop- 
erty of all steps taken by the city authorities in connection with the in- 
itiation and subsequent assessments for local improvements of all kinds. 



So 



Chamber of Commerce of the Borough of Queens. 



Queens Boulevard 




HE most conspicuous improvement in the Borough, known 
as the Queens Boulevard — a highway 200 feet in width, 
extending 8 miles in length from the Queensboro Bridge 
Plaza, Long Island City, through the heart of the Borough 
to Jamaica — is now under way. The highway will be 150 
feet in width from Union Turnpike to Jamaica. The rule 
map for the entire length and the damage map for the 
first mile from Van Dam Street to Greenpoint Avenue were adopted by the 
Board of Estimate September 19, 1912. Condemnation commissioners 
(Leander B. Faber, John Connolly, and Harry R. Gelwicks) 
have been appointed and it is expected their work will be completed within 
one year's time, and the actual widening within three to four years. One- 
half the cost of the improvement will be paid by the city at large, 30 per 
cent, by the Borough of Queens and 20 per cent, as a local assessment. 

When this boulevard is finished it will be one of the finest highways 
in the world and will compare with the famous boulevards of Paris, Vienna 
and Berlin, Eastern Parkway and Ocean Boulevard in Brooklyn, and the 
Grand Concourse in Manhattan and the Bronx. 

It will be a great automobile highway from Manhattan not only to 
Queens Borough, but to all Long Island, for it will connect with broad" 
avenues reaching eastward to Nassau County and southward to the Atlantic 
Ocean. Over the first mile of this boulevard an ornamental elevated rail- 
way will be built connecting with the Subway system of New York. Over 
its entire length a double track trolley will be operated. 

According to one of the plans prepared by Clifford B. Moore, Chief 
Engineer of the Topographical Department, the boulevard has been divided 
into 11 parts, and this treatment includes at the extreme sides 10 foot side- 
walks adjacent to the property line, next to which, nearer to the center will 
be 6 foot strips of grass on which trees are to be planted. Then will come 
on either side 25 foot strips for local vehicular traffic on which it will be 
possible to travel in either direction. Adjoining this roadway, nearer the 
center will be a 19 foot strip for a bridle path, each side of which will be 
lined with grass and trees. Then will come on either side a 25 foot strip 
of great importance for through, swift-passing traffic, principally auto- 
mobiles. Here the traffic will move in but one way, and divided in this 
manner it will be possible for automobiles to travel rapidly without dan- 
ger to anyone. Then will come the center section, 30 feet wide, which 
will be of the greatest importance, for here it is planned to locate the 









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Chamber of Commerce of the Borough of Queens. 



transit lines. This strip will be improved by the surface and elevated roads 
that will make use of it. 

Another treatment suggested especially for that section of the boule- 
vard which is crossed by the tracks of the Long Island Railroad is to sub- 
divide the boulevard into one central driveway 44 feet wide with parking 
places on each side 30 feet wide, outside of which will be local or service 
roadways 28 feet wide and sidewalks 20 feet wide. 



Areas 




HE Borough of Queens is the largest of the five Boroughs 
of New York City, comprising as it does 129.5 square 
miles, or 82,883 acres, and represents 39.7 per cent, of the 
total area of the City of New York. 

Queens is almost as large as the combined area of 
the Boroughs of Manhattan, Brooklyn and Bronx, and is 
as large as the City of Philadelphia; three times as large 
as Boston; lacks only six miles of being as large as Buffalo, Baltimore, Al- 
bany and San Francisco combined. 

Jamaica Bay includes 14,400 acres; parks take 968 acres and ceme- 
teries about 2,500 acres. It is estimated that 40,000 acres available for 
building development is still undeveloped. 

The following table gives a comparison of the area of Queens and 
the other Boroughs of the City, and also the areas of the five wards into 
which the Borough of Queens is divided. 



AREAS. 

Tola! 

Sr/.l\Ii. Acres 

Area Borough of Queens 129.5 82,883 

" Manhattan 21.9 14,083 

" Brooklyn 77.6 49,680 

" " " Bronx 40.6 26,017 

" " " Richmond 57.2 36,600 

Greater New York 326.8 209,21S 

Acres 

Area First Ward of Queens 4,650 

" Second ' 14,700 

" Third 22,600 

" Fourth " " " 36, 

" Fifth ' 4,933 

" Borough of Queens S2.SS3 









Available 


Total 




Sg. Mi. 


Acres 


39.7 




109.3 


70,000 


6.7 




18.7 


12,000 


23.7 




62.5 


M, 


12.4 




31.2 


20,000 


17.5 




46.9 


30,000 


100.0 


26S.6 


172,000 


Sq. Mil 


es 




% Total 


7 


26 




5.6 


22 


97 




17.7 


35 


31 




27 1 


56 


25 




43.5 


7 


78 




6.0 



129. 5S 



100.0 



Chamber of Commerce of the Borough of Queens. 



83 



Express Rates (to New York City) 



OFFICES OF THE LONG ISLAND EXPRESS COMPANY. 



Column No. 1 applies from points in 
in Brooklyn (Bushwick, Flatbush Ave., E 
Avenue, 501 Broadway). 

Column No. 2 applies from 
and 150th St. West. 

Rates per 100 pounds. 



Manhattan, 72nd St. and South, and from points 
N. Y., 333 Fulton, Vandeveer Park, 4113 Third 



points in Manhattan above 72nd Street to 135th St. East 



Column 



To 1 

Arverne . $.50 

Bayside « 50 

Broad Channel 50 

Bushwick Jet 40 

Cedarhurst 50 

College Point 4m 

Corona 40 

Douglaston 50 

Edgemere 50 

Elmhurst 40 

Far Rockawav 50 

Floral Park 40 

Flushing 4(1 

Glendale 4m 

Great Neck 50 

Hollis 40 

Jamaica 4u 



Colur 



2 To 12 

$.75 Lawrence $.50 $.75 

.75 Little Neck 50 .75 

.75 Long Island City 40 .40 

.50 Morris Park 40 .50 

.75 Ozone Park 40 .50 

.50 Queens 40 .50 

.50 Richmond Hill 4m .50 

.75 Rockawav Beach 50 .75 

.75 Rosedale 50 .75 

.50 St. Albans 50 .75 

.75 Springfield 50 .75 

.50 Whitestone 4m .50 

.50 Winfield 40 .50 

.50 Woodhaven Jet 40 .50 

.75 Woodmere 50 .75 

.50 Woodside 40 .50 

.50 



EXPRESS RATES (NEW YORK CITY) TO VARIOUS CITIES. 



To Co 

Albany, N. Y Am., 

Boston, Mass Ad., 

Baltimore, Md Ad., 

Buffalo, N. Y Ad., 

Chicago, 111 Ad., 

Cleveland, O Ad., 

Cincinnati, O Ad., 

Detroit, Mich Ad., 

Elizabeth, N. J Ad.. 

Hoboken, N. J All 

Jersey City, N. J.... All 

Newark, N. J Am., 

New Haven, Conn... Ad. 



. 


Rate 


Nat. . . 


. . ..$ .75 


U.S. .. 


. . . 1.00 


U.S. .. 


1.00 


U.S. . . 


. .. . 1.25 


U.S. .. 


. . . 2.50 


U.S. .. 


. . . 1.75 


U.S. .. 


. . . . 2.00 


U.S. .. 


. . . 2.00 


U.S. . . 


... .50 




. .. .50 


50 


U.S., W.F.. .50 




... .60 



To Co, 

Passaic, N. J All 

Philadelphia, Pa Ad., 

Pittsburgh, Pa Ad., 

Providence, R. I Ad. 

Rochester, N. Y Ad., 

Schenectady, N. Y...Am., 

Scranton, Pa Ad., 

Springfield, Mass.... Ad., 

Syracuse, N. Y Ad., 

Toledo, O Ad., 

Trov, N. Y Am., 

Utica, N. Y Ad., 



U.S. 
U.S. 



U.S. 
Nat. 
U.S. 
U.S. 
U.S. 
U.S. 
Nat. 
U.S. 



Rate 

$ .50 

.75 

1.50 

1.00 

1.15 

.85 

.75 

.75 

1.00 

2.00 

.75 

1.00 



84 Chamber of Commerce of the Borough of Queens. 

Femes (Borough of Queens) 



Company 



Long Island R. R. . . 

N. Y. & E. River 
Ferrv Co 

N. Y. & College Pt. 
Ferrv Co 



do 
do 

do 



Twin City Ferrv Co. 



Canarsie & Roxbury 
Ferry 

Slieepshead Bay & 
Rockaway Ferry 
Co. 



From 
(Queens) 



To 



Borden Ave., L. I. 
City 



I 



Fulton St., Astoria. . . 
North Beach, Astoria. 
North Beach, Astoria. 
North Beach, Astoria. 



First Ave., College 
Point 

No. 10th St., College 
Point 



Rockawav Pt. 



Rockawav Pt. 



E. 34th St., Manh.. . 

E. 92nd St., Manh... . 

E. 99th St., Manh.. . . 

E. 134th St., Bronx. 

First Ave., College 
Point 



E. 99th St., Manh. 



Clason Point Road, 
Bronx 



Canarsie, Brooklyn. 



Slieepshead Bay 
Brooklyn 



Passengers 

Carried I Schedule 

June 30, '11 



8,941,204 

3,713,999 



10 minutes. 
10 minutes 



569,869 



1 hour 



1-2 hour 







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■t. 

. 



Rockaway Beach Ocean Frontage. 



Chamber of Commerce of the Borough of Queens. 



85 



Beaches 




HE great popularity of New York City as a Summer Re- 
sort is due to the great stretches of beaches that lie at its 
very door on the South side of Long Island extending from 
Coney Island to Montauk Point, and the picturesque Har- 
bors and Bays on the North side of the Island from As- 
toria to Port Jefferson. 

The Rockaway Peninsula at the Southern portion of 
the Borough of Queens is about ten miles in length and lies between Ja- 
maica Bay and the Atlantic Ocean. All of the built up section of the Pen- 
insula is 30 to 40 minutes from Wall Street, Manhattan, via the electric 
trains of the Long Island Railroad, and from 40 to 50 trains are run each 
way on week days and twice this number on Sundays. All of this section 
is one of the finest sea side resorts along the Coast, with its board walk on 
the ocean and its broad macadamed streets, magnificent hotels, handsome 
residences and public parks. 

Seaside Boulevard at Belle Harbor skirting Jamaica Bay, where yachts 
by the score may be tied up, makes this a noted resort. Seaside, Holland 
and Hammel are tilled with amusement resorts of many kinds and its 
hotels and bathing pavilions cater to a floating population that often 
reaches from 75,000 to 100,000 a day. The hotels have accommodations 
for 2,000 boarders and are filled every season. Here is a board walk 
fronting the ocean for two or three miles. Arverne — 15 1-2 miles from 
Manhattan, has 14 or 15 hotels for the accomodation of about 1,400 
people. Edgemere, 17 miles from Manhattan, has a magnificent hotel club 
house which accomodates 250 guests who must be approved by the club 
members. There are a great many all the year round residents in this 
section. 

Far Rockaway, 18 miles from Manhattan, has a large permanent 
population of over 10,000 people and many fine business blocks. Hun- 
dreds of fine cottages are rented at prices ranging from $750 to $3,000 
per season. This is a prominent business of the place. Its hotels accom- 
modate over 2,000 guests. There is one of the largest bathing pavilions 
to be found in the country at Far Rockaway Beach. 

Visitors of Rockaway Peninsula have the advantage of fine surf, bath- 
ing at the ocean front and still water and aquatic sports on Jamaica Bav. 



S(. 



Chamber of Commerce of the Borough of Queens. 



Mortgages Recorded in Queens B 

A mou 
July 1st 1908 
to 
Company 7«/> 1st 1911 

Title Guarantee & Trust Co $14,457,600 

Queens Co. Bond and Mortgage Co. & ( 
Lawyers Title Insurance Co. ) 

First Mortgage Guarantee Co 116,000 

United States Title Guarantee Co.. . 105,600 

Nassau & Suffolk Bond Surety Co 445,825 

Long Island Bond & Mortgage Co 894,550 

Home Title Insurance Co ■ 

Bond, Mortgage & Surety Companies 213,082 

Realty Construction & Investment Companies 2,298,114 

Miscellaneous Companies 347,420 

Life Insurance Companies 303,1 50 

Title Insurance Company of New York 985, Inn 

Banks, BIdg. Loan Ass'ns. & Trust Companies, 

(except Title Companies) 

Trust Mortgages 

All Others 



orough 



/// Loaned 


July 1st 1911 


to 


July 1st 1912 


$3,826,630 


865,900 


834,00(1 


773,250 


398,550 


367,050 


145,450 


904,250 


416,810 


218,739 


637,900 


37,500 


5,227,032 


13,534,750 


10,840,910 



Bank of 

Long Island 

Suilding, Jamaica 





Queens County 
Trust Company 
uilding, .1 \.\IAH \ 



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Chamber of Commerce of the Borough of Queens. 



Clubs and Associations 

Among the prominent clubs and associations of the Borough of 
Queens are the following: 

Commercial 

Name Prcsii/ent 

Chamber of Commerce of the Borough of Queens W. H. Williams 

Queens Plaza Court Luncheon Club W. Elmer Payntar 

Queensboro Fire Insurance Exchange Andrew McTigue 

Queens County Bar Association George A. Gregg 

Real Estate Exchange of Long Island James Frank 

United Civic Associations of Queens Borough Julius F. Harder 

Queensboro Real Estate Exchange A. J. Eno 

Social 

Name Location 

Jamaica Club Jamaica 

Niantic Club Flushing 

Columbia Club Whitestone 

College Point Club College Point 

Golf ami Country Clubs 

Oakland Country Club Bavside 

Flushing Country Club Flushing 

Forest Park Club Woodhaven 

Edgemere Country Club Far Rockaway 

West Side Tennis Club Forest Hills 

Yachting 

Jamaica Bav Yacht Club Jamaica Bay, Rockaway Beach 

Belle Harbor " " 

Jefferson " " " 

College Point " " Flushing Bay, College Point 

Whitestone " " East River, Whitestone 

Beechhurst " " " 

Bavside " " Little Neck Bay, Bavside 




Jamaica Bay 
Yacht Club 



( • UCLAND 

( > i hi- Clu: 

House 




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Chamber of Commerce of the Borough of Queens. 



89 




Health 

HAT the Borough of Queens is a healthy place to live is 
shown from the records of the Department of Health of 
the various cities of the United States. For instance for 
the year ending September 30, 1911, the Borough of 
Queens not only had the lowest death rate per thousand 
of any of the five Boroughs of the City of New York, 
but also of the twenty leading cities of the United States. 



Death Rate 1911 
Chy Per 1,000 

New York City — 9 

Borough of Queens 11.30 10 

Brooklyn 12.21) 11 

Manhattan & Bronx 13.15 12 

Richmond 14.70 13 

Chicago . .• 15.14 14 

Philadelphia 17.29 15 

St. Louis 15.76 16 

Boston 17.18 17 

Cleveland 13.63 18 

Baltimore 17.41 19 

Pittsburg 17.90 2" 



Death Rate 1911 
City Per 1,000 

Detroit 16.16 

Buffalo 15.47 

San Francisco 13.38 

Milwaukee 13.90 

Cincinnati 17.36 

Newark 16.64 

New Orleans 19.43 

Washington, D. C 18.68 

Los Angeles 13 . 77 

Minneapolis 12.40 

Jersey City 12. 

Kansas Citv 17. 




Vikw ok Main Street, Flushing 



XI 



Chamber of Commerce of the Borough of Queens. 



Many things combine to bring about this healthful condition within 
Queens Borough. Not only the Borough of Queens but all Long Island 
has an abundant supply of pure water. It can be obtained almost anywhere 
by sinking a pipe in the ground. Its accessability, low cost and abundance 
have given healthful conditions and decent sanitary cleanliness. 

Queens is swept by ocean breezes and has the purest air. Through 
the center of the Borough extends the ridge that forms the backbone of 
Long Island from which one commands a view of both the Atlantic Ocean 
and Long Island Sound. The efficient collection and disposal of garbage, 
the disposition of sewage, the Tenement House Laws which do not permit 
of dark rooms, the large proportion of the population that live in detached 
houses, and the excellent work of the Board of Health in its supervision 
of all diseases in schools and homes, all combine to bring about this health- 
ful condition. 

The office of the Department of Health for the Borough of Queens 
is No. 372 Fulton Street, Jamaica. John H. Barry, M.D., Assistant Sani- 
tary Superintendent; George R. Crowley, Assistant Chief Clerk; Robert 
Campbell, M.D., Assistant Registrar of Records. 



Newspapers — Borough of Queens 



Paper 

1. Long Island City Star 

2. L. I. Beobachter 



1. Newtown Register 

2. Ridgewood Times 

3. Queensboro Press 

1. Flushing Journal 

2. Flushing Times 

3. Borough Bulletin 

4. Queensboro Reporter 

5. Whitestone Herald 

6. Queens Magazine 

1. L. I. Farmer 

2. Richmond Hill Record 

3. Leader-Observer 

1. Rockaway News 

2. Rockaway Journal 

3. The Wave 

4. The Argus 



1st Ward 
Editor 
T. S. Weeks 
John Hering 

2nd Ward 
Chas. F. White 
George Sclnibel 
J. F. DeLorme 

3rd Ward 
J. H. Ridenour 

C. H. Shoeles 
Harry Sutphin 
Henry Bornemann 
Alfred L. Gould 
George U. Harvey 

4th Ward 
Mr. Kennahan 
Thomas Coates 
Messrs. Ball & Conway 

5th Ward 
J. F. MacNamara 
Harvey Beagel 

D. W. Murray 
John P. Young 



Address 
39 Borden Ave., L. I. City 
532 Broadway, Astoria 

Elmhurst, L. I. 

816 Cypress Ave., Ridgewood 

Corona, L. I. 

Flushing, L. I. 

College Point, L. I. 
Whitestone, L. I. 
Flushing, L. I. 

Jamaica, L. I. 
Richmond Hill 
1133 Jamaica Ave., Woodhaven 

Far Rockaway 
Rockawav Beach 



Chamber of Commerce of the Borough of Queens. 



9i 



Highways 




HE condition of the highways upon which every- 
thing must travel, has been greatly affected by the 
rapid growth of the Borough, and thirty main highways or 
over one hundred miles of roads have now been entirely 
repaved with asphaltic macadam under a five year guarantee 
of maintenance form of contract. This type of repavement 
costs about $1.00 to $1.20 per square yard including 
maintenance for five years and the preparation of the macadam base while 
the old style water bound macadam costs about 60 cents to 65 cents per 
square yard with no maintenance. This type of pavement will sustain the 
heavy automobile traffic over the roads of Queens Borough as thousands 
of machines pass daily over these roads. 

The following is a tabulation of the total mileage of new pavement 
from July 2, 1912, to Dec. 15, 1912. 

Repavement, July-Dec, 1912. 

Miles of Asphaltic Concrete Pavement 
Miles of Improved Granite Block 
Miles of Asphalt Block Pavement 
Miles of Sheet Asphalt 
Miles of Wood Block 

102.00 Miles. Total. 



89.31 


6.93 


3.25 


1.83 


0.68 



The following is a list of the principal roads repaved in 1912. 



Highway 
Thompson Avenue . . 
Hoffman Boulevard 



Jackson Ave. 



Wan 

.1-2-4 



Flushing & Astoria Road. 
Laurel Hill Boulevard... 
Cooper Avenue 



Woodhaven Avenue ; 

Trotting Course 

Lane 

Shell Road 

Metropolitan Ave. 
Strongs Causeway 
Corona Ave 



rid] 



1-2 



2-4 



2-4 
2-3 



/ From To 

Diagonal Street Grand Street 

Grand Street Jamaica Ave 

Borden Ave Thomson Ave. . . . 

Thomson Ave Woodside Ave. . . . 

Woodside Ave Trains Meadow 

Road 

Trains Meadow Rd. ..Shell Road 

Shell Road Flushing Bridge . . 

Bowery Bay Road ....Jackson Ave 

Newtown Creek Thomson Ave. ... 

Kings Co. Line Myrtle Ave. 

Montauk Div. L.I.R.R.. Woodhaven Ave. . 
Hoffman Boulevard ..Forest Pk. Drivel 

Forest Park Drive Jamaica Ave. .. j- 

Jamaica Ave Rockaway T'np'k J 

Thomson Ave Jackson Ave 

Newtown Creek Fulton St., Jam.... 

Lawrence St., Flush.. .Corona Av., Coro. . 
Broadway (Newt.) .. ..Strongs Causeway. 



Length 
In Feet 
15,300 
22,200 
3,560 
19,900 

5,800 
11,000 

4,200 
13,500 
15,300 



Cost 

$49,959.00 

78,703.50 

111,437.00 

152,451.00 

21,420.00 
57,801.75 
31,474.00 
66,766.50 
51,215.00 



12,900 39,332.50 

' 8,800 58,420.00 

15,400 30,728.00 

20,000 56,525.00 

5,600 52,000.00 

9,900 170,000.00 



32,560 93,888.00 
19,000 59,797.50 



92 Chamber of Commerce oe the Borough oe Queens. 

Length 
Hiff/iivay Ward From To hi Feet Cost 

Third Ave. & 18th St 3 13th St., College Pt. . . 11th Av., Whitest. 1 

Whitestone Ave. & Fourth ISth Street Broadway \ 17,710 54,486.50 

Avenue 3 Whitestone Flushing J 

Union Turnpike 2-4-3 Metropolitan Ave. ...Flushing Road ... 9,200 35,895.00 

Rockv Hill Road 3-4 Queens Ave Hillside Av 20,200 56,742.50 

Bell Ave 3 Willets Point Road. . .Rockv Hill Rd... ] 

Willetts Point Road 3 11th Ave Bell Av [ 

14th Street 3 11th Ave Willetts Pt. Rd.. | 

11th Ave 3 Boulevard Willetts Pt. Rd.. J 

Little Neck Road 3 Broadway Jericho Turnpike ( 

Floral Park Road 3 Little Neck Road City Line \ 

Parsons Ave | lamaica it- 
Queens Ave j- 3-4 Broadway, Flushing . . Hempstead 24,600 86,658.00 

Queens Road j Turnpike. 

College Point, Causeway?. 3 B roadwav, Flushing .. 13th St, Col. Pt.. . 5,200 11,932.75 

& Lawrence Street \ 

Broadway 3 Murrav Lane 10th St., Bavside. . 19,700 104,325.00 

Broadwav 3 10th St, Bavside Main St., Douglas 4,400 44,150.00 

Lawrence Street 3 Broadway No. Hempstd. Tpk. 5,030 58,075.00 

Locust Avenue 4 Rockawav Road Farmers Av 9,600 31,075.00 

Hillside Avenue 4 Myrtle Avenue Hoffman Blvd. ... 5,100 16,580.00 

Rockawav Plank Road 4 Kings Co. Line Locust Av 23,500 90,515.00 

Springfield Road & Lincoln J 4 Rockaway Road Hillside Ave 19,500 81,255.00 

Avenue ) 

Alsop St. & Rockaway Rd... 4 Hillside Ave Rockaway PIk. Rd. 13,200 32,635.00 

Merrick Road 4 Fulton St, Jamaica. ... 1,500 Feet So. of 

Central Av 8,250 17,490.00 

Central Avenue 4 Merrick Road Citv Line 15,545 28,479.50 

Hempstead & Jam. Turnp'k.. 4 Grand Street City Line 19,500 55,148.00 

Mott Avenue 5 Bayview Ave L. I. R. R ] 

XT emra ' J A Y Rockaway Tpk.. I 50,865.00 

Central Ave Nostrand Ave City Line | 

Washington Ave Boulevard Pelham Av J 

Broadway & Rockaway Tpk. 5 City Line Cornaga Av 3,500 10,420.00 

Seaview Ave 5 Cornaga Ave Atlantic Av ( ..... ,,1775 on 

Atlantic Ave 5 Seaview Ave Norton's Creek . \ 1/ '~ UU 1U .' /J - UU 

Boulevard 5 Norton's Creek Park Av 10,600 35,110.00 



Chamber of Commerce of the Borough of Queens. 



93 



Hotels 

Arverne. 
Arverne Hotel, Remington Avenue, 
Bay View Hotel, Bovvker Place, 
Britton Hotel, 
Carlton Hotel, 

Colonial Hall, Amerman Avenue, 
Majestic Hotel, Boulevard and Remington. 

Astoria. 
Eagle Casino, North Beach, 
Eldorado Hotel, North Beach, 

Bayside. 
Bellstone Inn, Bell Avenue. 




Justness Section, Far Rockaway. 



94 Chamber of Commerce of the Borough of Queens. 

Far Rockaway. 
The Belevedere, Broadway and Lockwood Avenue, 
Delevan House, H. Evans, White Street and Cornaga, 
Edgemere Hotel, Edgemere, L. I., 

Hotel Montauk, Jos. Jenny & Son, opp. Trolley Depot, 
Manhattan Hotel, G. Koenig, Prop., Central Aw, opp. Depot, 
New York Hotel, M. W. Burns, Greenwood Avenue, 
Tack-a-Pou-Sha, South Street. 

Flushing. 
Flushing Hotel, 84 Broadway, New York, 
Fountain House, J. F. Haubeil, 14 Main Street. 

Jamaica. 
Minden, Fulton and Washington, 
Roosevelt Hotel, Twombly Place. 

Little Neck. 
Douglas Manor Inn, Douglaston. 

Long Island City. 
The Arlington, 301 Jackson Avenue, 

Astoria Schuetzen Park, Broadway and Steinway Avenue, 
Miller's Hotel, Borden Avenue. 

Whitestone. 
Garrison Hotel, Fort Totten. 




Public Library, Far Rockaway, 



Chamber of Commerce of the Borough of Oueens. 



95 



Public Libraries 




HE Queens Borough Public Library is one of the three 
public libraries of the City of New York. It is supported 
by the people, for the people, as a part of the educational 
and recreative system of Greater New York; but for the 
particular pleasure and profit of the citizens of Queens 
Borough, whose right and privilege it is to use it, free of 
cost. It contains 159,216 volumes, including all classes 
oi reading. 

The work of the library is carried on in twenty branches, located 
throughout the Borough in urban, suburban, seaside and rural commun- 
ities, the branch work being supplemented by the Traveling Library De- 
partment, which is placing library stations, 12 at present, in the large 
areas of the Borough well populated, but without branch service. 

In 1896 there was opened in Long Island City a public library, with 
a nucleus of 4,000 volumes, the gift of Mr. William Nelson. 

The following year, a free library in Steinway was consolidated with 
the Long Island City Public Library, and in 1898 a new branch was opened 
at Astoria. 

In 1899 the three Long Island City branches — Nelson, Steinway and 
Astoria — became by act of legislature the Queens Borough Library. 

In 1901 the Queens Borough Library received as its share of the Car- 
negie gift to New York City $240,000, with which to erect eight library 
buildings, six of which have been erected. At this time also the free circu- 
lating libraries of Hollis, Queens, Richmond Hill and Ozone Park became 
branches of the Queens Borough Library. 

Later, 1902-1908, the Flushing Free Library, the Library of Poppen- 
husen Institute at College Point, and the free library at Whitestone became 
a part of the corporation; while new branches were opened at Far Rock- 
away, Llmhurst, Bayside, Broadway, Jamaica, Whitestone, Seaside and 
Woodside. 

During 1911, three new branches were opened at Corona, Brooklyn 
Manor, and Ridgewood. 

In 1907, by act of Legislature, the Queens Borough Library became 
the Queensboro Public Library for which the City of New York agreed 
to provide adequate maintenance. 

Its field of work is the whole of Queens Borough and the Adminis- 
trative Department is located at 402 Fulton Street, Jamaica. The chief 
librarian is Miss J. F. Hume. 




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Chamber of Commerce of the Borough of Queens. yj 

Circulation 
Branch Location Started 1911 

Nelson 101 East Ave., Long Island City 1886 32,259 

Steinway ^23 Steinwa\ Ave., Long Island City 1897 35,670 

Astoria Main and Woolsev Sts.. Long Island City 1899 55,986 

Ozone Park Broadwav, Ozone' Park 1900 34,573 

Richmond Hill Hillside Ave., Richmond Hill 1901 76,403 

Hollis Iroquois and Fulton Aves., Hollis 1901 15,314 

Queens Railroad Ave., Queens 1901 12,896 

Flushing Main Street, Flushing 1902 66,550 

Poppenhusen 13th Street, College Point 1903 46,861 

Far Rockaway ...Central Ave., Far Rockaway 1904 43,459 

Elmhurst Broadwav and Cook Ave., Elmhurst 1906 55,757 

Bavside Elsie Place, Bavside 1906 25,693 

Broadway 252 Steinway Ave., L. I. City 1906 47,987 

Jamaica 402 Fulton St., Jamaica 1906 71,581 

Whitestone 30 Eighth Ave., Whitestone 1907 25,125 

Seaside Boulevard, Rockaway Beach 1908 44,419 

Woodside Greenpoint and Betts Ave., Woodside 1910 26,894 

Rid^ewood 501 Seneca Av., Ridgewood Heights 1911 40,341 

Manor 1229 Jamaica Ave., Brooklyn Manor 1911 43,114 

Corona 13 Locust Street, Corona 1911 24,226 

Traveling Library Stations 

Springfield Higbie Ave., Springfield Development Co., Springfield.. 1909 18,781 

Evergreen 1450 Myrtle Ave., Emener, Evergreen 1910 22,448 

Winfield Lenox & Woodside Aves., Zrubeck, Winfield 1910 4,702 

Broadway Broadway & 22d St., Rickert & Finlay Co. Office, Broad- 
way, Flushing ' 1911 S,S86 

Glendale Mrvtle Ave., near Tompkins, Breunecke, Glendale.... 1911 20,065 

Rockaway Park ..Fifth Ave., near Washington, Chubbuck, Rockavvav Park 1911 4,990 

Maspeth 30 Grand St., Frontera Law Office, Maspeth 1911 12,084 

Middle Village ...2177 Metropolitan Ave., Middle Village 1911 5,522 

Union Course ....Atlantic Ave., near Benedict, Union Course 1911 3,630 

South Ozone Rockaway Road, South Ozone Park 1912 

Forest Hills Windsor Place, Forest Hills (Thornton's) 1912 

Louona Park 42 West Jackson Ave., Corona (Trebilcock) 1912 



Total Circulation 1911 9S3.213 

The circulation for the year ending June 30, 1912, amounts to 
1,037,749, which was fourteenth largest in United States. 

OTHER QUEENS LIBRARIES. 

Christian Science Reading Rooms, Jamaica and Jefferson Avenues, 
Richmond Hill, and Post Office Building, Flushing; Queens County Bar 
Association Library, Court House, Long Island City, 1,200 volumes. 



98 Chamber of Commerce of the Borough of Queens. 



Post Offices 



Long Island City Post Office, 51 Jackson Avenue 

Postmaster, John Wagner, June 25, '10, $3,400; Asst. Postmaster, Jas. B. Keegan. 
Collections begin at 5, 7, 10.30, 11.20 A. M., 2. 3.40, 6 P. M., 12 M. Due at Post Office 
one hour after time of beginning. Sundays, 2 P. M. 
Deliveries begin at 7, 10, 11 A. M., 2, 5 P. M. 

Stations 

1. Astoria Station, Fred. Wagenstein, 5. 438 Jackson Avenue. 
Supt., Van Alst Avenue and John. 6. 95 Greenpoint Avenue. 

2. 515 Broadway. 7. 133 Fulton Avenue. 

3. 922 Steinway Avenue. 8. Steinway and Flushing Avenues. 

4. Corner Webster and Vernon Avenues. 

Jamaica Post Office, 302 Fulton Street 
Postmaster, Warren B. Ashmead, Jan. 28, '07, $3,400; Asst. Postmaster, Skidmore Pettit, 

Branches 
Richmond Hill. Queens. 

Woodhaven. Springfield Gardens. 

Sub-Stations 

1. Ozone Park. 7. Woodhaven. 

2. Morris Park. 8. Woodhaven. 

3. Brooklyn Hills. 9. Aqueduct. 

4. Union Course. 10. Jamaica. 

5. Hollis. 11. South Woodhaven. 

6. South Ozone Park. 12. Richmond Hill. 

Flushing Post Office, 103 Amity Street 

Postmaster, T. B. Lowerre, March, '05, $3,400; Asst. Postmaster, Herman Notbohm, 
$1,700. 

Independent Stations 

Bayside, College Point. Corona, Elmhurst, Woodside, Maspeth, Whitestone. 

Sub-Stations 

1. Flushing. 5. Middle Village. 

2. Winfield Junction. 6. Corona. 

3. Corona. 7. Elmhurst. 

4. Laurel Hill. 

Other Queens Post Offices 

Broad Channel, Alf. Shaw, Apr. 24, '07. 
Creedmoor, M. C. Graf, Jan. 2, '96, $344. 
Douglaston, John Reid, Dec. 4, '91, $789. 
Far Rockaway, G. R. Vreeland, Feb. 5, '10, $3,100. 
Fort Totten, G. H. Martens, July 8, '07, $990. 
Little Neck, W. N T . Williamson, $4S6. 



Chamber of Commerce of the Borough of Queens. 99 

Public Halls — Borough of Queens 

Archer's — Fulton, cor. Bergen Ave., Jamaica. 

Arcanum — 41 S. 11th Ave., Whitestone. 

Arion — 370 Boulevard, Rockaway Beach; 1680 Myrtle Ave., Evergreen 

Arlington — 301 Jackson Ave., L. I. City. 

Astoria Assembly Rooms — 22 Flushing Ave., L. I. City. 

Broadway — 458 Broadway, L. I. City. 

Broadway Lyceum — 43 Broadway, Flushing. 

Central — 80 Central Ave., Corona. 

College Point Turn. — 401 Thirteenth, College Point. 

Colonial 102 Fulton, Jamaica. 

Corona Assem. — 20 Main, Corona. 

Cypress — Cypress Ave., cor. Willow, Evergreen. 

Denning's--— 159 Amity, Flushing. 

Elm Palace — 38 Elm Ave., Ridgewood Heights. 

Foresters — 401 Thirteenth, College Point. 

Fraternity — 22 Herriman Ave., Jamaica. 

Fritz's — 924 Steinway Ave., L. F City. 

Good Citizenship League Bldg. — 171 Sanford Ave., Flushing. 

Good Templar — Springfield Ave., Springfield. 

Hollis Ass'n — Fulton, Hollis. 

Jacksonville — 432 Steinway Ave., L. I. City . 

Knights of Columbus — 75 Main, L. I. City. 

L. I. City Turn. — 347 Steinway Ave., L. F City. 

Masonic — 162 Broadway, Flushing; 165 Fulton Ave.; 246 Jackson Ave., 
L. I. City. 

Masonic Temple — 46 Union Ave., Jamaica. 

Mechanics — 92 Broadway, Flushing. 

Nebenzahl — 275 Central Ave., Far Rockaway. 

New Arion — Grand, cor. Flushing Ave., Maspeth. 

New Century — Grafton Ave., cor. Morris, Woodhaven. 

Newtown — Broadway and Court, Elmhurst. 

Odd Fellows — University', cor. Clinton, Woodhaven; 71 Broadway, Flush- 
ing; 96 Third Ave.", L. I. City; 39 W. 18th, Whitestone; 13th, Col- 
lege Point. 

Queens Co. Athletic — 56 Flushing Ave., L. F City. 

Rockaway — 117 Rockaway Road, Jamaica. 

Royal Arcanum — 10 Main, Corona. 

Sachsen — Lafayette Ave., near Cypress Ave., Evergreen. 

Saenger — 4th, near Anderson Ave., Woodside. 



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Chamber of Commerce of the Borough of Queens. 



Singer — 319 Freeman Ave., L. I. City. 

St. Mary's Lyceum — 117 Fifth, L. I. City. 

St. Mary's Lyceum — Flushing and Shelton, Jamaica. 

Turn.— 380 Ninth Ave., L. I. City. 

Tyroler — Cypress Ave., cor. Norman, Evergreen. 

Warwick — 83 Grand Ave., Corona. 

Washington — Pleasure Ave. and Lawrence, L. I. City; 370 Washington 

Ave., L. I. City. 
Whitestone Pavilion — East River, near Bayside Ave., Whitestone. 




The Historical King Manor, Jamaica. 



Chamber of Commerce of the Borough of Queens. 



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Telephones 




in the Borough of Queens. 



HE New York Telephone Company has three commercial 
or branch offices in the Borough of Queens, located at 
Jamaica, Hushing and Far Rockaway; a fourth — Wil- 
liamsburg — although located in Brooklyn, handles the 
business of the Long Island City section. This company 
spent $556,000 in 1910, $662,000 in 1911 and $752,- 
000 in 1912 for the extension and improvement of its plant 







INTER-BOROUGH 

TELEPHONE TOLL RATES 

FROM SUBSCRIBERS' 

STATIONS 

Effective December i, ign 



'//'///ft. Indicates to or 
'//'i///- from Lower c„ 
VBBS&l. Manhattan, ou 

Indicates to or 
from Lower | a. 
Manhattan * uu 



102 



Chamber of Commerce of the Borough of Queens. 



Eight years ago there were only 2,836 telephones in Queens Borough. 
Four years later the number had almost tripled, bringing the number to 
8,113. In 1910 the number had increased to 11,181 stations, and therfc 
are now over 17,000 telephones carrying messages to the people of Queens — 
an increase of 500 per cent, in eight years. 

In 1907 new central offices were opened in Jamaica, Hushing and 
Hammels. This was followed in 1908 by the opening of new central of- 
fices in Far Rockaway and Newtown. In 1910 the Richmond Hill central 
office was erected, and Astoria in 191 1. 

Of the 43 telephone exchanges in the five boroughs of Greater New 
York, 11 are located in the Borough of Queens as follows: Astoria, Cy- 
press, Far Rockaway, Flushing, Forest Hills, Hammels, Hunters Point, 
Jamaica, Newtown, Richmond Hill, Springfield. 

The accompanying picture shows the five and ten cent zones for tele- 
phone messages from Manhattan to Queens and Brooklyn. 




Post Office Building, Jamaica. 



Chamber of Commerce of the Borough of Queens. 



103 



Churches 



QUEENS 



Name of Church and Location. 



Name of Pastor and Address. 



[Or- 

gun. 
lized 



uo 'V S.S. 
Mem. I 



Tot«l 
Am't 

Raised 



Valoa 
Ch'ch 
Prop. 



Vaca lit 

G. Rittenhouse, Whitney av\.Cor.3d 
B P. Hall, 1st av. & B'way.R.Hill 
[George Douglas. 206 Franklin pi... 
JamaicaiJas. L. Coote 143 Grove. Jamaica. 
\ G.Lawson, 175 Lex'gton av..Mhtn 
J. T. Wilklns, 114 Marion. L.I.C... 
Hill. H. D. Coe, 3111 Pulton av... 
u G Crooks, 133 Camelia St. .L.I.C. 
J. A. Jordan, Is Evergreen, Jam'ca 
Donaldson. 4015 Ferris. W'dh'vn 
C Case, COO W. 12uth St.. Mhtn 



istii: 

1900| 

is:.- 

1856 

1869 

1SS0 

1897 

1S9S 

1895 

1^7: 

1891 

lssl 



Baptist. 

Ebenezer (colored). S. Prince. Flushin 

Elmhurst, Whitney av.. cor. 3d 

First, 11th near Ely av., L. I. City 

First. Flushing, Stanford av. & Union 
First, Grove, nr. Flushing av. 

First, Woodside, L. I 

Ravenswood. 389 Hancock. Ravenswood. 
Richmond Hill, Fulton av. & Elm. Rich 
St. Stephen's (col'd), 133 Camelia. L.I.C, 
Shiloh (colored), 100 Douglass. Jamaica 
Union Cse. 1st & Shaw av., Union C'se|J 
Wyckoff Av., Wyckoff av., Evergreen. .E, 

Christian Science. 
Christian Science Soc. Jamaica and Jef-|Mrs. M. W. Haring, 403 Lefterts 

ferson avs., Richmond Hill I av., Richmond Hill. 1st Reader 

First Church of Christ. Scientist. P. O. I 

Building. Flushing E. J. Wright. 1st reader, Bayside 

Congregational. 

Broadway. 22d St.. Flushing IVacant 

Christ. Columbia av. & Ferris, Woodh'n.JF.S. Van Eps. 120 Ellmw'd, Woodh'n|1911| 

First. Van Wyck av., Lunton |L. H. Ruge I1S94! 

First, Bowjie av. & Lincoln. Flushing.. IGeo. D. Egbert. 77 Bowne av ]is.il] 

First, R'k'way B'ch. Blvd. & Academy av. J. C. Green. 305 Boulevard — 1SS5| 
First. Walker" & Grafton avs.,W'dhavenlR.E.Butterfield, Walker av..WdhvnlS63| 

Forest Parkview. Glendale |R. McBlroy, 80 Covert, Bkln |1912| 

1903] 
1SS6I 



13] 

325 
1S5 
189 

95 

36 
321 

55 1 

54 



1910 
1912 



1904 



T.Williams. 4401 Orchard av.,R.H, 
George A. Liggett. 3106 Chestnut... 



Pilgrim. Wyckoff av., Brooklyn Hills... 
Union. Oak & Orchard. Richmond Hill.. 
Disciples of Christ. 

Ridgewood Hgts Ch., Forest and Linden avs.. (.meens 
Evangelical. 

Emmanuel (German). Bigelow pi. and 

Broadway, W lhaven !F. Egger. 481 Benedict av..Wdhvn|lS' 

Evangelical Mission. Myrtle av.i-F.P.Rd||C.Philipbar, 125 Harrison av.,Bkln|1912 

North Corona. Smith & National avs IW. J. Peck. 36 Mulberry av 1907 

St. Johns (German;, Lin, leu, Ridgew'dlD. Bast. 479 Linden 1904 

Union. 45 Grand av.. Corona W. J. Peck. 36 Mulberry av |1S6S 



246 


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250 


50 




42 


15 


25 


100 


1 '5 


286 


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150 


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276 


128 


250 


210 


325 


74 


150 


252 


409 


310 


433 



J2.90O 
3.517 
4,897 1 
5,6001 
2, IO0 
1,898 
400 
5.S20I 
.55 1,800 
351 1.500' 

611 



H4.000 
23,000 

I". 

40.000 

10,000 



s.ooo 

1.500 

27, 5... 1 
5,000 



1,000 
2,575 
1,000 
9,000 
2.17S 
2,500 
1.500 



4.000 
9,000 
10.000 
so. (100 
17,500 
25,000 
3.000 



1,500 30.000 
1,153 12,003 



aica. E. Spitzer, Pres 

I. Unterberg. Pres.; A. H. Nieto 
cantor 



J. Kohn, Boulevard and Dodges. 



Jewish 

Anawath Israel. N.Wash.& Fulton, Jam 
Derech Emunah, Vernon & Ocean avs., 

Arverne 

Independent Israel of Corona, Corona... 

Rockaway Beach, B'l'vd and Dodges — 

Temple Israel, Roanoke St.. Far R'kaway|Ephraim Frisch 

Temple Israel, 10 S. Fairview av.R'kaw ay Beach. H. Germansky 

Lutheran. 
Bethany (Norwegian). 60th & NlJth av 

Christ, 144 5th St., Woodside 

Christ, Jerome av.. Woodhaven 

Covenant, Elm and Buchmann avs. 



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Vacant 

M. T. Holls, 144 5th. Woodside... .118961 
G. A. Baetz. 3910 B'way, W"dh'vn|l8Sl| 

Rgwd. J. H. Stellies, 2409 Hughes|1910| 



I 



1;. 

l.soo 

2,500 



2,500 
26,000 
15,000 



I 



25,000 
1.600 
20.000 



Emanuel. High .<c Sycamore av., CoronalE. G. Holls. 35 Oak. Corona I18S7I 

Emmans. Dosher av. & Jefferson. Glend|ale. T. S. Frey, 20 Doscher av... 119041 
Good Shepherd. Ashby & Horan avs., So.Oz.Pk. P.J.Alberthus. 75 Boss av.|1911] 

Gustavus Adolphus (Swedish), Rieh.Hill|G. Anderson |1912| 

Holy Spirit. 1.3th & 1st av., College P'ntlN. P. Grose, 514 13th 119061 

Holy Trinitv. Hollis IC. H. Tettru. Hollis |190S| 

Immanuel. 21st, bet.7th & 8th avs., Whitlestone. Theo. Kuehn. 41 N. 6th av. |lS94r 

Redeemer, Cooper&Fosdickavs..Glendale|J. C. Baur, Glendale 119091 

St. Bartholomew. Corona IN. P. Grose. 514 13th |1909 

St. Jacobus, Winfield, Grove & ProspectlF.E. Tilly, 51 Prospect. Winf'd Jet. I1S67 
St. John's. 6th av. & 14th. College Point|Arthur F. Halfman. College Point|1857| 

St. John's, 186 Percy, Flushing IC. Geo. Kaestner. 184 Percy St.. ..11894 

St. John's. Stoothoff av.. Richmond Hill 1 A.L.Benner, 627 Briggs av., R.Hill 1903 
St. Luke's. Suydam & 2d., Woodhaven. IE. R.Jaxheimer, 169 2d. Woodhavenll908 
St. Mark's, Jamaica IMax Hering 11909 



loo! 



144 



11" 

17f. 
2.861 300 
1(13 ISOl 



1,6001 7.000 

1,21551 1S.000 

1.0S51 7.000 

1,7701 16,000 

I 11.000 

S,950l 14,000 



51 87 

,53| S9| 

70| 100| 

100 1 250 1 



St. Paul's. Elm St.. Richmond Hill P. B. Frey, 324 Beech St 

Salem (Swedish), Potter av., L. I. C....IG. Nelsenius. 41S 46th. Bkln 

Trinity (Swedish). Clinton nr. Shell rd.. [Corona. G. Nelsenius. 41S 46th. .Bkln 
Trinitv. Luth. Cemetery. D. W. Petlerson, 12 Juniper av.. Mid. Vil'ge. 

Trinity, Sth av.. nr. Jamaica av. L.I. City c. Merkel. 345 Sth av.. L. I. C... 

Trinity. Maspeth Wm. H. Pretzsch, 35 Andrew 

Methodist Episcopal. 

Bayside. Palace av. & West. Bayside... V. G. Mills. Bayside 

Corona Italian Mission, 52 Moore \.M.D.Riggio. 52 Lincoln. Astoria. 

Elmhurst. Medina pi. and Grove W. M. Hughes. 121 4th. Elmhurst. 

Epworth. 8th av. and 20th. Whitestone..] Vacant 

First. Amity St.. Flushing 'R. L. Forman, 1SS Amity 

First. Locust and Sycamore av.. Corona, w W Welder 

First. Temple & Crescent. Astoria 1.7. J. Foust. 238 Temple 

First. Belmont av.. cor. Hatch. Oz. P'klA.A.LathbUry,1260 Hatch av..Oz.Pk 

First, Minnetonka av.. Hollis |.T. B. Smith, Woodhull av.. Hollis. 

First. Johnson av.& Beaufort. MorrlsP'k'J.S.Chadwick, 124 Johnson av..R.H. 
First German, 78 Academy. L. I. City...'W. Hesskamp, 78 Academy, L.I.C. 
First Italian. Van Alst av.&Lincoln.Asto ! ria. A.M. D.Riggio. 52 Lincoln. Ast'a 
Glendale, Washington av IF. Gunton. Simpson, Forest Park 



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1905 

1863 

1890 

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1891 

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80 


290 


250 


225 


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246 


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160 


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103 


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150 


455 



1,003 

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7,000 
6.000 
S.0O0 
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4,500 

20,'66o 
10,000 
25,000 
26,000 
11.000 



3,528 

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4.680 __ 
2,018 12.000 

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9361 
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109 


139 


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95 


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137 


176 


2,733 


si 


151 


1,286 


301 


2311 


7,500 



167 150 

1 10 

551' ?50 

mi 1 ki 

200 200 I 

. 150 



6.000 
80,000 

3.5 1 11 ill 
15,000 

20,000 

25,000 

. 30,000 
1,8011 1..,'"'" 
4.0471 74.000 



5,s,5'i 
5,000 



1.1 
1.5(111 



15.000 
30,000 
2.500 

10,000 



104 



Chamber of Commerce of the Borough of Queens. 



Name of Church and Location. 



Name of Paitor and Address. 



Con- 



gun- trjb'e u ' Am't Cb'ch 
iied Mem. Raised Prop. 



Tntftl 



Valne 



Jamaica 



S. U. Curtice, lis Fulton. Jam' ca. 18071 
A.M.D.Riggio, 52 Lincoln. Astoria.. |1912| 



E. S. Jackson, Maspeth. L. I. 
M.W.Brown. 1124 Metropolitan av. 

rove. H.Scl kal, L769Madison,Bkln 

Vacant 



E. X>. Bassett. Springfield Gardens 
C.C.Coile, 5 Waterbury av., R.Hill. 
W. C. Blakeman. 190 Van Alst av.. 



Jamaica, 430 Fulton 

Jamaica, Italian 

Maspeth, Lincoln pi.. Maspeth 

Middle Vil'ge. Metropolitan av.,Mid.Vil. 
Ridgewood Hts.(Ger.), Woodward av.& G 

Shaw Avenue, Union Course 

Springfield Gardens, Farmers av. and 

Merrick road. Springfield 

Trinity, Lincoln & Orchard avs. Rich.H. 
Van Alst Av., 192 Van Alst av., L. I. C... 

Methodist Episcopal — African. 

Allen Chapel, Washington, Jamaica C. E. Wilson, 23 Railroad av 1844 

First U. A. M. E., 147 B'way, Astoria... | J. H. Mason. 147 B'way. Astoria.. 1S9S 

Macedonia A.M.E., 159 Lincoln, Flush'gi J. Stiles. 54 Douglas, Jamaica 1S10 

St. Mark's A. M. E.. Elmhurst |j.D. Shepherd. 54 Union av.Elmh'st|lS30 

Methodist Protestant. 

Centreville Avenue. Aqueduct, L. I C. E. Vail. Woodhaven 

Bpringfleld Gardens, Springfield Gardens. |Jas. H. Browser 

Presbyterian. (Presbyteries of Brooklyn and Nassau.) 

Astoria, 954 Boulevard, Astoria D. Wills, Jr., 954 Boulevard 

Eglise Evan.. Francaise, Univ. pl.,W'dh|vn. G. Baechler. Univ. pi.. W'dhvn 

First. Central av.. Far Rockaway |R. G. Leetch, Central av 

First, 2S-40 Prospect av., E. W'msburg. . I John Dietz, 34 Prospect av.Everg'n 1SG3 

First! Flushing lA. Currie, 142 Wilson av '1906 

First! Greenw'd av.,nr.Atlantic, Rich.H. L. P. Armstrong. 443 Greenw'd av. 11906 

First. Fulton & Clinton av., Jamaica... A. Magill. 25 Clinton av |1662 

♦First German, Forest av.. Evergreen .. J. G. Hehr, 261 Forest av., Everg'n|1903 
First of Newtown, Hoff'n blvd., Elmh'stlG.H.Feltus, Hoffman blvd..Elmh'st|1652 
Jamaica First German, Fulton & Harv'dlH. G. Blaschke. Fulton & Howard|l90Q 
liuvusu 1. r.'lv'd a Webster a-\ . Rav|eiiswd <: \l l'"Wnll,ll(> Wrhst.-r a \ Isns 



is;, t 
176S 
1S93 
1S92 

1866 
L9(X 

l:.inn 



1S56 



4151 

40 

125 267 

5U 96 

1201 ISO 

193 1 361 



■ I 



2511 
210 
160 

75 
114 
100 

40 



1846 
18S7 



Chas. A. Brown. Bayside 
John Graham. 343 S. Beech 



St.. 



Springfield, Springfield av. & BroadwayjS. H. Barrett, Springfield Gardens 

Cedar Manor Chapel, Cedar Manor S. H. Barrett. Springfield Gardens. 

Whitestone, 7th av. & 14th. Whitestone. |R. Bramfitt. 21 W.13th, Whitestone 
Woodhaven First. B'way & Walker, W'dlhaven. F. LeRoy Brown, 11 Shat- 

tuck av., Woodhaven 
Pri>testant Episcopal. 

All Saints'. Montauk av., Bayside 

All Saints'. Lefferts av.. Morris Park 

Annunciation. Cooper, nr. Webster av.. Gjiendale. R.F.Duffield. Garden City 

Epiphany, McCormick & Belmont avs.,OiZ. Pk. G. T. Baker, McCormick av. 

Grace, Corona A. G. Roberts, 546 7th av., L. I. C. 

Grace. 314 Fulton St., Jamaica |R. T. Homans. 62 Clinton av 

Grace. 11th av. and 18th, Whitestone IWm. Jenkins. Whitestone, L. I — 

Redeemer, Crescent & Temple, Astoria. .IL. R. Urban, 765 Crescent, Astoria. 
ISt. Andrew's Mis'n. 126 Newt'n rd., As|toria. L.R. Urban, 765Crescent. Ast'a 
Resurrection. Church St.. Richmond HilllW. P. Evans. 401 Church. R. H... 

St. Andrew's-bv-the-Sea, Belle Harbor.. Chas. A. Brown. Bayside 

St. Gabriel's, Fulton St.. Hollis ]H. N. Bowne. Hollis 

St. George's. Franklin St.. Astoria IHerman Lilienthal. 212 Franklin... 

St. George's, Main St.. Flushing |H. D. Waller. 45 Locust 

St. James', B'way & Corona av.,Elmh'st E. M. McGuffey. Elmhurst 
St. John's. Mott av.. Far Rockaway — 
St. John's. Van Alst av.& 10th. L.I. City 
St. John's. Sanford av.&Wilson. Flush'g 

St. Joseph's. Franklin av.. Queens 

St. Mary's Chapel. Laurel Hill 

St. Mary's, Van Wyck & Wyoming avs., 

St. Matthew's, Brooklyn Manor 

St. Paul's Chapel. 5th. College Point.... 

St. Paul's Chapel, Richmond Hill |M. A. Trathen. 160 N. 5th, Bkln. 

St. Paul of Tarsus, Arverne |Chas. A. Brown, Bayside 



W. A. Sparks, Far Rockaway 

Vacant 

G. W. Ernies. 1(1.1 Ash 

H.W.R. Stafford. Franklin av.,Q'm 

F. S. Griffin. Maspeth 

Dunton. F.N.Tummon. Wicks. R.H. 
J. S. Neill. Ill Avondale. Wdhvn.. 
H. D. Wa 



1S66 
190S 
187S 

1866 

1S92 
1900 
1S9S 
1889 

1702 
1S59 
1866 

1901 
1X74 
1906 
Ixx.x 
1S27 
1705 
1704 
1X82 

l',M, 

1911 
1SS0 



lx:ix 

I 

1X64 

lyoii 



St. Paul's. Striker av. & Kelly, W'dside 

St. Saviour's. Maspeth 

St. Stephen's (col'd), Grand & N. 1st, J 
St. Thomas', Vernon av., Ravenswood.. . 
Zion Douglaston 

Reformed (North Classis of L. I.) 

First. 1st av. & 10th, College Point 

First German. Far Rockaway 

First, 100 Academy St., L. I. City 

First Newtown, B'way & Union av.,E!m 
Forest Park, Hillside av.&Ferry, Wdhvn 
Flushing. Bowne av. & Amity. Flush'g 

German Second, 526 2d av., Astoria 

Jamaica Dutch, Fulton & Ray, Jam'ca. 
Queens. Jericho rd.&LincoIn av. . Queens 
Ref. Ch. of Astoria. Remsen St.. Astoria 
Ridgewood. Smith & Rathjen av., Everg 
St. Paul's G.E., Herrim'n & Hillside av, 

Steinway, Ditmas av. & 11th av 

Sunnyside. 310 Buckley St.. L. I. City... 

Winfield. Thomson and Lee avs '.... 

Zion, German. Summit av., Elmhurst.. 

Reformed Episcopal 
Christ. South Ozone Park 

Miscellaneous. 
Bethel Union S. S.. Hawtree Creek rd., 



J. C. Sturges. 421 W. 46th, Mhtn... 

F. S. Griffin. Maspeth 

am'ca. E. N. Hollings, 41 Grand.. 
A. G. Roberts. 546 7th av.. L.I.C. 
A. E. Bentley. Douglaston 



A. C. V. Dangremond, 611 loth.... 
P. H. Hopf, John st. Far Rock'y. 

Alexander Shaw. 102 Academy 

h'st. C. K. Clearwater. 23 Vietor pi 

F. L. Cornish. Woodhaven 

T. H. MacKenzie. 37 S. Parsons av. 
Dr.C.D.F.Steinfuhrer. 2d av.. Ast'a 

R. K. Wick, 221 Fulton st 

J. S. N. Demarest. Queens 

J. C. Rauscher, SO Remsen st 

r'n. G.R. Israel. 124 Smith. Everg'n 
J'ca. F.Stoebener, 120 Herriman av. 

Vacant 

Supply 

Wm. T. Adams, 4 Fisk av 

G. J. Schork. Prospect av..Elmh'st 

Wm. P. Mackay, 50 Presberger av, 
Bergen, Supt... 



S. Jamaica. J. M 
J. C. Hollyman 



Forest Hills Free Church. Forest Hills 
Gospel Mis. Ch. (Ind.). 4th av.& 14th. Col|lege Pt. J.H.Stumpf. 6.15 College av. 
Grace Ch'l Soc. 61 Hunter av.. L.I.C. . |W. W.Oswald. Spt., 65 Borden av.LIC 
Society of Friends, Broadway, Flushing. 'Walter C. Gilbert. Clerk. Flushing 



1S73 
1S12 

1 9112 

1X1!' 

1830 

1871 
1909 

1S75 
1731 
1S39 
1S46 
1854 
1702 
1S5S 
1S36 
1S91 
1872 
1S78 
1S95 
,•»,; 
1S62 

1909 



1S70 
1645 



210 
78 
250 
500 
84 
221 
525 

267 
76 
29 
235 
235 



158 

jua 
117 

67 
2101 

85 1 
532 
150| 
573| 

3S| 
:::,n 

50| 
US 
ill 
660 
319 
310 
132 
153 

75 

37 

50| 
200 
21S 



■si:, 

9: 

265 
750 
114 
20(1 
431 
500 
342 

65 
130 



300 

80 

193 

170 
146 
11" 
106 
149 
275 
154 
7c J 
164 1 
150 1 
30 1 
75 
327 
262 
250 
130 
135 
125 
85 
:;x 
110| 
100 



50 

40 

151 

3S 

1211 
110 

is" 
118 
70 
225 
275 
443 
150 
513 
107 

|im 
130 
330 
170 
21 
50 
150 

60 

20 



7.27.S 
702 



6,469 
2.5S0 
2.000 

1,116 

800 

2,100 

2.000 

1.6 



90.000 



' 

11,000 

:,),,». 
12,500 

29,500 
20,000 
42,600 

7,000 
8,000 

50,000 

7.000 



1.00' 
909 
9.000 
10.6S2 
1, 
3.400 
S.041 

1,4110 
498 
$500 
500 

1,176 



000 
000 



' 



000 





Kin 









000 
500 



2,997| 20,000 
000 



I 



4,500| 50, 
1.9371 ... 

21'.' .. 
2,3O0l 30, 

6571 .. 
12,3721200, 
2,7531 50, 
6.00l| 7S, 
I.:-.', ::... 
5,022| 30 

422| 12. 



2.50S 
4.531 
11. ".V, 
10.312 
7.913 
1.615 
4.41)0 
1,700 
590 
269 
2,000 
6,343 



1' 





,000 
,000 



,000 















,.„, 




000 

ooc 



1,21*1 

1.7SX 

220 

875 

3,317 

3.196 
2.355 

6,000 
6.000 

1".1.1- 
1,681. 

11, 70S 
2,256 

'I. 

1,175 
2.0(1(1 
2.196 
493 
969 
1,400 



4.500 
15.000 
70,000 

40,000 

1", 

6.000 
50,000 
45.000 

30.000 

7o!o66 

15.000 
21.000 



S5 2.0001 10.000 

40 361 10.000 

50| 40| | 20,000 



nMiSS 



Chamber of Commerce of the Borough of Queens. 



105 



Roman Catholic Chnrehes of Queens. 



Name 0* Church and Location. 



I 



Name of Pastor. 



Or- 

ttau- 
ized 


No.oi 

P'r'h- 
toners 


S. S. 
11 em 



Value 
Cb'ch 



*]:. V. M. Help of Christians, Winfield Junction [John Bender 

*B. V. M. Mt. Cannel, Newton av.. Astoria ''Ins. Gibney, 2 assistants 

*Gate of Heaven, Ozone Park Julius M. Six, 2 assistants 

Holy Child Jesus, Richmond Hill Thomas A. Nummey 

Nativity (Italian). Woodhaven [J, B. Garbottini 

•Our Lady "l Sorrows, Shell rd.. Corona .James J. Corrigan, 1 assistant 

Sacred Heart. Bayside William J. Dunne, 1 assistant. . . 

st Adelbert's (Polish), Elmhurst S. Tarnowski, O.M.C.. L assist.. 

St, Bartholomew, 4th, Elmhurst ..I Jeremiah J. Heafey, 1 assist 

St. Benedict Joseph. Morris Park IP. J. Fahley, 1 assistant 

Sr Camillus, Seaside [Joseph Brady 

•St. Elizabeth, Atlantic av, & 3d, W lhaven.. Gustav Baer 

*St. Fidelis. High and loth, College Point 'Ambrose Schumack, 1 assist 

St. Francis de Sales. Belle Harbor [Francis J. Mc'Murray 

St. Gerard Magelia. Hollis (John S. Gresser 

St. Gertrude's, Edgemere, Summer Church IHerbert Farrell... 

Sts. Joachim and Anne. Holns av.. Queens F. W. Dotzauer 

St. Josaphat (Polish), Bayside Gervase Kubec 



1ST. 1 

1M1 
1904 
L910 

a 

1S70 
Mi. - , 
1S92 
i an; 
1S93 
1909 
1873 
1856 
1906 
1906 



•St. Joseph's (German) Long Island City 

St, Joseph's (Polish). Rockaway rd., Jamaica.. 

St. Leo. Sycamore av. and Elm. Corona 

•St. Luke. 11th av., Whitestone 

•St. Margaret. Middle Village 

•St. Mary's, Hunters Point. Long Island City.. 

St. Mary Magdalen. Springfield 

•St. Mary's (Ger.). Flushing & Shelton. Jamaica 

•St. Mary's Star of the Sea. Far Rockaway 

•St. Michael's. Union and Madison. Flushing.. 

•St. Monica, Washington St., Jamaica 

St. Fancras, Glendale Francis O. Siegelack 

•St. Patrick's. Dutch Kills, L. I. C ; Edward F. Hannigan 

St. Pius the V. Jamaica M. Legnani 

St. Raphael, Blissville. Long Island City Edward A. Hol'ley, 1 assistant. 

St. Rita, Boulevard, near Webster av lames J. Higgins, 1 assistant.. 

.las J. Bennett. 1 assistant.. — 

W. A. Kerwin 

Joseph A. Bennett 

Andrew Klarmann. 1 assistant. 

N. Petkus 



C. Bisele, 1 assistant 

Emil Strenski. 1 assistant....... 

John L. O'Toole 

Thos. J. O'Brien 

John P. Gopp 

Patrick J, Cherry, _ assistants... 

Attended from Hollis 

J. M. Scheffel, 1 assistant 

Herbert Farrell. 1 assistant 

Eugene J. Donnelly. 2 assistants 
Philip A. Brady. 1 assistant 



i van 

r.'i 

1S79 

1904 

1903 

1S70 

ISO" 

1S6S 

1907 

1886 

is:,4 

1S41 
1S3S 



assts. 



•St. Rose of Lima, South, Fairv'w av &Cedar pi. 

St. Sebastian. Woodside 

St. Stanislaus. Maspeth 

St. Thomas, Benedict av,, Woodhaven 
Transfiguration, Hull av,. Maspeth ... 



1909 

is.',", 
1S94 
is-.., 
1894 
1S71 
1908 
1908 



soo 


340 1 


|,,„, 


1,000 


1,200 


200 


.aim 


200 


705 


205 


3,237 


380 


700 


100 


2,700 


165 


750 


ISO 


2,000 


350 


200 


75 




162 


2,000 


400 


500 




7,000 




Tun 


100 


1.200 


ISO 


1. 


140 


1,800 


400 


2,100 


200 


1,200 


275 


525 


160 


5,000 


700 


300 


60 


1,500 


400 


2,000 


300 


2.500 


600 


2,000 


700 


225 


115 


| 2.000 


600 


l.noo 


150 


1.S0O 


600 


900 


200 


1,500 


100 


1,800 


300 


1,500 


450 


700 


150 


1, 1"" 


30 



$50,000 

l.-.H.HMO 

;,'i. 

50,000 
8,000 

150,000 
18,000 
20,000 
65,000 
40."O<> 
j r. . < m m > 
25,000 

120,000 
85,000 
15,000 



an on, 

$2 

125,000 

86,000 

33.000 
100,000 

90,000 

150,000 

S.000 



150,000 

200.000 

7.',. "00 

:,,.,.«, 

180,000 

15.000 
160.000 
40.000 
150,000 
75.000 
10.000 
25.000 
25.000 



•Has a parochial school. 

Recapitulation, 



Queens Chnrehes. 





1 Con- 


S.S. 


Total 


Value 




Con- 


S.S. 


Total 1 Value 


Denominations. 


Itrib'g 


Mem- 


Amount 


Church 


Denominations. 


trili'^ 


Mem- 


Amount Church 




Mem. 


Iters. 


Raised. 


1 'ropert> 




Mem. 


bers. 


Raised. [Property. 




1 922 




$37,765 


$217.1 


Prot. Episc'l 


5,5041 '. 


104,8051 $1,130,500 


Christ' n Science 


02 


15 


3,329 


3.6S4 


60,167] 712,000 


Congregational. 


| 1.527 


2,384 


28.7011 


220.500 


Ref. Epis 


60 


100 


1,200 6.800 


Evangelical 


735 


1.700 


9.7S7 


53,500 


Roman Calh.... 


•65,942 


10.727 


[ 2,727,000 


Jewish 


588 


365 


20.300 


133.600 


Miscellaneous .. 


120 


200 


2,0361 40,000 






5.291 


41,389 


343.000 










Meth. Epii 


3.73U 


1.932 


61,878 


540,500 


Totals 


89.4991 40,7011 


$425.8051 $6.S54.900 


M. E. African. 


329 


19S 


6,016 


74,000 









Meth. Protes'ni 


7.-, 


1 25 


1.600 


T.aiiu 


•Number Paris 


hioners. 




Presbyterian .. 


| 3,194 


4.053 


50.156 


ma : 










Jamaica Presbyterian Chi m m 
First Presbyterian Church established in the United States. 



io6 



Chamber of Commerce of the Borough of Queens. 



Schools 



TRAINING SCHOOLS — QUEENS. 



Location. 1 ■rm-ii-a 1^ | Janitors. 


ICl'r 


ms|Tchrs. IReg't r 


Jamaica Training Sen. [Theory Dept., A. C. McLachlin (B.-G.)...|S. F. Bowen. 
Flush'g&Hillside avs. |»Model Dept., A. C. McLachlin (B.-G.)...| 


1 :: 


1 17 216 
I «17 1 •GUT 


HIGH SCHOOLS — QUEENS. 



Name and Location. 



Principals. 



I 



L r. 

_ ~. 

$ i 

n 



E. Demarest (B.-G.) | James Barnes 

J. Ellsworth (B.-G.)... 



Win. Scarlett 



Bryant, Wilbur av.&Academy,L.I.C. |P 
Dept. in P. S. 39. State and Roanoke | 

av., Far Rockaway S. 

Flushing. Sanford av. and Union, [ 

Flushing I J. 

Newtown, Chicago av. and Grove. | 

Elmhurst (J. D. Dillingham (B.-G.).. .|D. R. Miller 



H. Clark (B.-G.) [Charles Boyle 



Jamaica. Hillside av.. Jamaica T. 

Richmond Hill. Elm & Stewart avs. I. 



C. Mitchell (B.-G.) [Win. Fairbairn 

N. Failor (B.-G.) |john J. Luddin 



1073 

272 
602 



1007 
l.; 917 
121 S22 



Public Schools— QI EENS. 



Location. 

(Schools marked * have 

kindergartens.) 



Principals. 



3 1? 

US ' W 



.[Win. Thiesen ... 
.iHenry Schmidt. 



9th and Van Alst av.. L.I.C |John F. Quigley (B.-G.). 

Hulst and Nott av., L.I.C IBranch of No. SO 

Colonial av. and Euclid. Forestl 

Hills |Jos. E. Carlin (B.-G.) I 

Prospect and Crescent, near 

Beebe av.. L.I.C [Robert L. Conant (B.-G.)...|Thos. F. Holien.... 

N 5. Academy, nr. Grand av., L.I.C. [Matthew D. Quinn (B.-G.). .IHenry Gutteridge.. . 
*0. [Steinway av., nr. Jamaica av.,| I 

j L.I.C |Thomas H. Sweeney l B.-G.)[Michael J. Sinnott. 

•7. Van Alst, nr. Flush'g av., L.I.C|Mamie Fay (B.-G.i |Cornelius Foley 

8.[St'nway, nr. Ditmars av..L.I.C.IBranch of No. S4 William A. Ley 

Munson. nr. Fulton av., L.I.C..|Melvin Hix (B.-G.) |Irene Vanderhoff 

Flushing av., Bowery Bay Branch of No. 15 |Viola Smith 

Woodslde av., Woodside |Theophilus Johnson (B.-G. (.[Alfred Frost 

.jProspect, Winneld |Branch of No. 



. II 12 

1-71 

I I I 

12 36| 

. 12 35 



•20. 

"in. 
•31. 
•32 

33. 
•34. 
•35. 

36. 
*37. 

•?S. 
•3(1. 
•In. 

42. 

43. 
•44. 
•45. 

46. 
•48. 
•49. 
•50. 



Branch of No. S9 

John J. Jenkins (B.-G.) 
Arthur C. Mitchell (B.-G.). 
Josephine M. Lawlor (B-G.) 

Branch of No. 17 

Branch of No. 15 

John H. Clark (B.-G.) 

Branch of No. 23 

Mary L. Lyles (B.-G.) 

Catherine Helion (B.-G.).. 
of No. 22 



Jas. T. Smith 

David R. Miller 

Daniel Regan 

Daniel Culhane ... 

Jos. Gelson 

Michael Kent 

Daniel Nafis 

Charles Boyle 

Thos. Kennedy ... 
Matthew Metzger 
Wm. J. Heaney . . 
jRobt. Gorsline 



Mulcahy |43 4 



Irving pi., Elmhurst 

Junction av., Corona 

Sycamore av. , Corona 

Myrtle av.. Corona 

[Corona av., Corona 

lEvergreen av.. Corona 

Sanford av. & Union. Flushing. 

Washington & Union. Flushing. 

Sanford av. & Murray. Flushing 

Whitestone av & State, Flush'g 

Queens & Robinson avs, Flush'g|Branch 

Jamaica av., head of Vleigh, I 

Flushing Chas. H. Davis (B.-G.) |Danle 

Fresh Meadow & Black Stump | 
ids.. Flushing !M. C. Fogertv (B.-G.) IRc.se Corrigan ... 

13th and 1st av.. College Point. IGeiirge w norland ( B.-G). [Morris O'Keefe .. 

6th. bet 1st & 2d avs.. College PtlBranch of No. 27 IChas. B. Wright. 

lf.th & 6th av., College Point. ...[Branch of No. 27 IKate Egan 

11th av. and 19th. Whitestone.. Branch of No. 79 Chas. E. Smith .. 

IF.ell av.. Bay Side [George R. Dutton I B.-G.) . [Frederick Conklin 

Lakeville rd.. Little Neck |Anna Brett (B.-G.) |Wm. Kirkman 

Madison av & Cedar. Creedmoor]Catherine Stehlin (B.-G.) 

Springfield rd & Hollis av, Q'ns'Helen T. Dailey (B -G I 

Palatine &- Prospect avs, Hollis|Marv E. McQuirk (B.-G.) 

Everett & Central av. St.Alb'nslBranch of No. .:; (B.-G, 

Higbie's av. & Springfield rd.,| 
Springfield t. S. Wells (B.-G.) (Edward H. Rhodes 

Foster's Meadow rd.. Rosedale. Gertrude M. Traphagen (BGtlJnhn Bardalmus .. 

State & Roanoke av. Far Rkwy|Sanford J. Ellsworth (B-G.Wm. Scarlett 

Pacific & Union Hall, Jamaica. IFrank K. Mbntfort f 



2i 60 

40|1S43 

IS 1c is 

I 
3711631 
27 1128 



421 6 
42 21 
12|32 

42 
42 



I 



Wm. J. Whiteside 

Rufus Brown 

jVincent Glazer ... 
Mu garel Acaster 



23 


252 
822 



::i 117? 
42 ir.1 



35 


1315 


17 


664 


27 
IS 


1186 
765 


3 


66 


4 
33 


137 
124S 


ii 

12 
3 
12 

11 


581 1 
262 
63 
417 
351 



31 101 



Blvd. & Vernon av, R'kwy B'ch 
Washington av., Rockaway Pk, 
(p.lvd & Academy av, Rkwy Bch 
Three-Mile rd., Jamaica South.. 

lO'd South rd.. Aqueduct 

South Mini Church, Jamaica 



Branch of No. 41 [Thos. Heaney 

Branch of No. 44 ..(Geo. Winant 

William M. Gilmore (R.-G.)JW. E. Davenport 

Ida Ward (B.-G.) (Remsen D. Laniberson. 

Isabella A. Eoulton (B.-G.).|Adolphus Held 

Branch of No. 5<i | Isaac E. Phillips 



I 



[Brenton av., Jamaica |Mary A. Flynn (B.-G.) (Jos. Semona 

[Wyckoff, Talfourd L'n, Jamaica|Margaret Scott (B.-G.) lAnrtrew J. Netterfield 

Johnson av., Richmond Hill. . ..[Isabella L. Harding (B-G). [Ambrose Spitznagle .. 
'Elm, nr. Atlantic av, Rich'd Hill|Branch of No. 62 (B.-G.). .[Conrad Kaiser 

Hillside av. and Sherman, Rich- I | 

iniinil Hill Kate II. McWilliams (B-G)IHenry A. Burroughs . 



13 II 

! 

44] 8 
II R 
li 19 
13 8 

44110 
13 5 
I:: ll 
i:: i.s 
ll 15 

44110 
I I 

44113 



12 


128 


4 


143 


is 


726 


42I1S45 


17 


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12 


372 


27 


1035 


30 


1225 


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12 


389 


14 





Chamber of Commerce of the Borough of Queens. 



107 



Location. 

(Schools marked * have 

kindergartens.) 



Principals. 



r £ 



•64. 
65. 

■!.•;. 

•67. 

■;- 
69. 

•70. 
'71 
•72. 
73. 
•74. 



;> 

•80. 
•81 

•Si'. 



•85. 

•86. 



•87. 
•88. 



Maure av. and Beaufort, Rich- 
mond Hill 

Orchard av. & Elm, Rich' a Hill. 
Curtis av. .nr. lVway, Morris P'k. 
"Walker & Grafton avs, W'dhvn 
University pi. & Rockaway rd., I 

Woodhaven 

Second, nr Shaw av. Wdhaven 
Bl.n, nr Union pi. B'klyn Hills 
Washington av. nr. Broadway, 

Chester Park, Woodhaven.... 
Old S'th rd. nr Woodhaven rd., 

W lhaven 

B'way, nr Spi uce, w in tven . 

Shediker av. & 2d. S.W'dhaven 
Union pi. & Tulip, B'klyn Hills.. 
Central av. and Olmstead pi., 

Glendale 

Bergen & Rathjen avs. Evergrn.. 
Trotting Course la., Whitepot. 

Newtown 

Juniper av.. Middle Village 

Forrest av., E. Williamsburg.. 

Maspeth av., Maspeth 

Lexington av., Maspeth 

Star & Woodw'd av. Metrop'tan., 
Broker & Covert av, Ridgew'd. 
Montgomery and Congress avs.. 

Laurel Hill 

Covert 'av.. Centre and George 

sis.. Ridgewood Park 

Maurice av. and Carroll pi., 

Winfield 

7th av. and 14th. Whitestone... 
Greenp't, nr. Bradley av., L.I.C. 
Cypress av., Ralph & Bleecker, 

Evergreen 

Kaplan av, Hammond & Hor- 

ton, Jamaica 

Vernon av.. bet. Pierce and 

Graham avs., L.I.C 

Albert & Theodore, nr. Ditmars 

av., Long Island City 

Debevoise av, nr.Woolsey.L.I.C 
Old Flushing av, near Grand, 

Maspeth | 

Washington av. and Pulaski, 

Middle Village 

Fresh Pond road. & Elm av. , 

Ridgewood Heights 

5th. 6th & Orchard av. Elmhurst. 
Washington av, nr. Jamaica av. 
Parental Seh..Jam'ca rd.Flush'g 



Branch of No. 57 |Jos. Fothergill 

Eliz. A. Loughlin (B.-G. i..|Eugene P. Moynihan 

Catherine Sheehan (B.-G.).. \ John Smith 

Cyrus E. Smith (B.-G.) I r. J. Hendry 



Martin Joyce (B.-G.) Peter Beihle 

Branch of No. 59 Loretta B. Neumann 

Kate M. Westbay ( B.-G. ) ..iElla Stine .... 



I 



■ ,14 4 

II .1 

II I., 

. 141431 

II 111 

II 1 
II 1 



Mary E. Markey (B.-G.)...[ Wm. H. Davison .. 14 10 

Branch of No. Ill I Jeremiah Stoothoff n 

Bianch of No. ■ ■:< [Matthew J. Fox II 

Branch of No. 59 |. Martin Bages 14 

Frances H. Seele; 1 1 '. Hi Herman J. Arendes ... H 

J. Wesley Drumm (B.-G.). Terrenee McSpirit .. 112 

Kate R. Hickey (B.-G.) (Chas. Doering 

Branch of No. n7 

Branch of No. 87 

Maurice I. Jewell (B.-G.). 

Robert Eadie (B.-G. I 

Branch of No. 72 

Branch of -N'o. 75 1 B.-G, 1 



John R. Purdue 

William Nugent 

John J. Connolly 

J. E. Lawrence 

Katharine Donaldson. 
Margaret Rothaar.... 



Jennie L. Potter (B.-G.). ..(John Brady 

|j. C. Bell (B.-G.) |Edward A. Slavin 

Jas. J. O'Regan (B.-G.) |Daniel Riordan 

Fred H. Mead (B.-G.) Frederick Boiler . 

William H. Carr (B.-G.) .... [Fred. E. Berthold 
James A. Dugan (B.-G. 1. . . J. F. O'Donnell .. 



William H. Dumond (B.-G.)lThos. F. O'Connell 

J. M. Whitenack (B.-G.)... Wm. E. Mitchell ... 
I 
Thos. M. Donohue (B.-G.).. W. J. Burke 



John D. Melville (B.-G.)... (Geo. H. Melius. 
(John J. Dempsey (B.-G.). ..(David Hart .. 



B. R. Buckingham (B.-G.)IJos. P. McNally. 
Matthew A. Devlin (B.-G.) . (Daniel J. Brady 



J. II. Rohrbach (B.-G.). .. .Jos. Donnelly 

Almeron W. Smith 1 B.-G.).! Patrick J. O'Rourke. 
J. A. Loope_(B.-G. j^ jfhos. F. Donohue 



12 111 
12 1^ 
41 111 

14 60 

.43111 

141 |30 

1 ' 32 
• 42 34 

.[41125 

42 



Hobart H. Todd (B.) 



Art luir G. Mullin 



20 1 693 
l!i 777 
39114.-.1 

I 
38 1492 



41 1SS 
IL'1 481 



17 1 60S 

I 

24| S93 

.'I 7 



47 
31 

S 
9 

12 

4S 


2012 
1367 

225 
291 

361 

196S 



30 11 'i 

699 

is 601 

59124 1 

14 .',11 

30 1222 

26 972 



1294 
1447 
1400 



11 :i 180 



Queen**. 

Flushing Inst, t— Flushing. 
Homestead School* — Bay Side. 
Jamaica Bus. School— P. O. Bldg.. Jamaica. 
Jamaica College of Music— 445 Fulton. Ja- 
maica. 
Kyle Military Inst. f— Flushing. 
Sacred Heart Seminaryf— Whitestone. 
St. &gnes \. idemy*— College Point. 
Star of the Sea Academy*— Far Rockaway. 

Queens. 

41— Schools 1, 2, 4. 71, 72, 73, 74, 76. SO. 83 and 
86. Board: D. F Coughlin. Ch.. 135 Sth, L. I 
City (1912); John Andrews, Sec. 134 Sth, L. I. 
City U913); J. F. McDonnell, Washington av.. 
Laurel Hill (1915); T. F. Crough, Metropolitan 
ai'ii.; H. Otten, Grand, Maspeth (1914); Mrs. A. 
L. Post, Mem. Bd. of Ed.; S. T. Stewart, Dist. 
Supt. Office. P. S. 89. Meets 1st T. each 
month, P. S 1, 8 P.M. 

42— Schools 3. 5. 6, 7. S, 9, 10. 11, 12, 13. 15 
16. 17. 18, 19. 69. 70. 78, 84. 85, S7 and 89. Board: 

C. F. Ritt'T. i'h.. W lside il'ilh: J. is. Hether- 

ington. 5 Purdy L. I. C M. J. Shu- 

grue. Main. Corona (1912); G. S. Ethier, Sec, 
93 Lamont. Elmhurst (1916): -Mrs. D. 



Wilcox, 75 6th, Elmhurst (1913); Bernard Suy- 
dam. Mem. Bd. of Ed. ; S. T. Stewart, Dist. 
Supt. Office, P. S. 89 (P. s. 1. Wed., P.M. and 
Sat A.M.). Meets 2d Thurs. each month, P. S. 

P.M. 
13— Schools 21. 21. 22. 23, 24, 25, 26. 27, 2S, 
29, 30, 31, 32, 33. 34, 35, 36. 37, 3S. 45. 4S, 49, 50, 
79 and 82. Board: Dr. E. L. Dillman. Ch., 306 
Fulton, Jamaica (1915); G. H. Higbie. Spring- 
held. L I. (1912); A. M. Barrett, 104 22d, Flush- 
ing (1916); H. A. O'Brien. Sec, 5 Flushing, 
Jamaica (191S); R. Weed, Sanford av.. Flush- 
mi; 1 ll.lli, p.. B. Thomas, Mem. Bd. of Ed.; 
E. D. Shimer. Dist. Supt. Office, Morris Bldg., 
Flushing. Meets 2d T. each month. Morris 
Bldg., Flushing, 6:30 P.M. 

44— Schools. 39, 42. 43. 44. 46. 51. 53. 54, 55, 56. 57. 
58, 59, 60, 61, 62, 63. 64. 65. 66, 67, 6S, 75, 77, SI, 88 
and 9". Board: J. H. Leich, 6 Forest Park- 

Woodhavon (1914); L. A. Richter, Sec. 

Webster av.. Glendale (1913); J. M. Bergen. 

'i ! -.nth rd., Woodhaven (1913); D, M. Ebeit, 

inderdonk av., Ridgewood Heights 11916,; 

W. J. Morris Jr.. Clarke av., Far Rockawa] 

A II Man. Mem. Bd. of Ed.; E D. 

i Disl Supt. Office, Morris Bldg., Flush- 
ing, I. I, Meei.s 3d W. each month. P S. t>2, 
s P.M. 



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Chamber of Commerce of the Borough of Queens. 



Sewers 




HE construction of sewers now under way in the Borough 
of Queens are second in the city only to those of the 
Borough of Brooklyn and will soon exceed in magnitude 
those of that Borough. An expenditure of $2,500,000 
has been involved in construction work now under way, 
some of which is near completion, and plans are well 
advanced on 300 new undertakings involving an expen- 
diture of $2,500,000 additional to the above. 

In 1898 when the Borough of Queens became a part of Greater New 
York there were in existence 13 separate and distinct sewer systems each 
of which was designed to meet local needs and without thought for future 
development. Great strides have been made in the past ten years in the 
design and construction of a gigantic system of big outlet and secondary 
sewer mains which, when completed, will provide with those already fin- 
ished and in operation, for an area of 30,000 acres, 'and for an estimated 
population of 1,500,000 within 20 years hence. The cost of the con- 
struction work will he nearly $20,000,000. 



Year 
1900 
1901 
1902 
1903 
1904 
1905 
1906 
19117 
1908 
1909 
1910 
191 1 
1912 



)N of Sewers — 


-1900 to 1912 


Inclusive. 


Total L 


eiigth 


Estimatt d 


Feet 


Miles 


Cost 


7,669 


1 .4 


$10,886 


14,168 


2.7 


62,238 


18,688 


3.5 


231,441 


36,569 


6.9 


285,772 


29,829 


5.6 


361,888 


22,212 


4.2 


187,785 


22,043 


4.1 


86,702 


48,375 


9.1 


597,346 


21,005 


3.9 


352,041 


24,213 


4.6 


142,031 


29,782 


5.6 


140,876 


48,362 


9.1 


582,977 


59,621 


11.3 


404,891 



Chamber of Commerce of the Borough of Oueens. 



(Unite* States Zitte (Buaranfg Co* 

HOME OFFICE 
COURT AND REMSEN STREETS, BROOKLYN, N. Y. 



GEORGE A. FLEl'RV, PRESIDENT 



Attention Investors! 

Our guaranteed mortgages on 
improved real estate in New York, 
Kings, Queens, and Nassau Coun- 
ties, netting 4 1 /s7r, 5% and 5*2% are 
worthy of your investigation. 

These mortgages are all tax 
exempt. 

Attention Real Estate Owners/ 

Just before your mortgage falls 
due, come in and see us. We will 
give you prompt service at reason- 
able rates. 

Attention Home Seekers 
and Buyers! 

Our title insurance policy will 
relieve you of all worry and anxi- 
ety as to the validity of the title 
to that house you are about buy- 
ing. 



JAMAICA OFFICE 
346 FULTON STREET, JAMAICA, N. Y. 

CHARLES E. COVERT, VICE-PRESIDENT 

IN CHARGE OF QUEENS, NASSAU AND SUFFOLK COUNTIES 



Chamber of Commerce of the Borough of Queens. 



McKnight Realty Company 

347 Fifth Avenue, New York 

Telephone, 3620 MADISON SQUARE 

FACTORY SITES IN LONG ISLAND CITY 

Operators and Developers of Queens Borough 
and Long Island Real Estate 

Water Front Plots on the Estates of Great Neck 

Ifi HOO Long Island City, Bayside, Elmhurst, White- 

JUjV/UU stone, Cedarhurst, Flushing and Jamaica, for 

sale at prices ranging from $250 to $1,000. 

LOTS IN Acreage and Country Estates bought and sold. 

Houses and Bungalows Built io Order on Easy Terms 



Cong island Bond and mortgage guarantee Company 

QUEENS COUNTY TRUST BUILDING 
JAMAICA - - NEW YORK CITY 

Money to Loan on Bond and Mortgage 

Tr> Investors " y° u ' nten ^ investing in Mortgages, we would be pleased to have you 
examine some which we have for sale, before purchasing elsewhere. 



WILLIS H. YOUNG 
JAMES MACBETH 



President 
Vice-President 



THEODORE G. CLARKE 
CLINTON T. ROE 



Treasurer 
Secretary 



Telephone, 317 Astoria 

JOSEPH KNEER 

PLASTERING CONTRACTOR 

388-392 BROADWAY 
Near Third Avenue 

LONG ISLAND CITY, N. Y. 



EARL A. GILLESPIE 

PLANING and MOULDING MILL 

Lumberjimber, Doors. Sash. Moulding 

SPECIAL ATTENTION GIVEN TO 

Turning, Band Sawing, Carving, 
and General Shop Work 

WOODHAVEN, L. I. 



Chamber of Commerce of tfie Borough of Queens. 



FACTORY SITES 




Factory sites having both railway and water 
transportation, in all sizes, from 2,000 to 
300,000 square feet. Also lots adjacent and 
suitable for modern tenements. Located in 
Long Island City, eight to ten minutes from 
Grand Central Station and Times Square, via 
Belmont Tunnel. 

New rapid transit lines have a station on this 
property from which all parts of the Bronx, 
Manhattan, Brooklyn, and Queens can be 
reached for one fare. 

For maps and particulars, apply on the prop- 
erty, or to the 

DEGNON REALTY & TERMINAL 
IMPROVEMENT COMPANY 



60 WALL STREET 



NEW YORK CITY 



Chamber of Com.m ki;< i m Tin-: l'.<ii<i>n,ii <>f (Jukkns. 

New York Office Brooklyn Office 

176 Broadway 175 Remsen Street 

TITLE GUARANTEE 
& TRUST COMPANY 

350 FULTON STREET :: JAMAICA, L. I. 
Capital and Surplus :: $16,000,000 



Within this book you will find the tesults of this Company's 
activities in Queens County in Banking and Mortgages 



Mineola Office Long Island City Office 

Denton Building 67 Jackson Avenue 



CHARLES CRABBE CO. 



Lumber, Timber, Shingles 
Mouldings and Mill Work 



Deliveries made to all parts of Jamaica Bay by Power Freight Boat, making 

daily trips Free delivery to all parts of the Rockaway Penninsula, 

and F. O. B. in cars. 

PLEASANT AVENUE AND RAILROAD 

Telephone, 15 Hammels ROCKAWAY BEACH, N. Y. 



D 



Chamber of Commerce of the Borough of Queens. 



Queens Borough 

A Region Unsurpassed for Suburban Homes 

and the Establishment of Manufactories 

and Commercial Industries 

®ITH an area of about 82,000 acres, the Borough of Queens 
has every advantage for growth in population, commerce 
and manufacturing, on account of its geographical and polit- 
ical location, and the crowded condition of the Borough of Manhattan. 
•I The land in Queens is about equally divided between that which 
is now occupied, that undergoing development, and that which re- 
mains for development. 

Cjj From the mouth of Newtown Creek on the East River, Long 
Island City to Little Neck, on Little Neck Bay, there are twenty 
miles of water frontage suitable for all kinds of business and pleasure. 
From the eastern limits of Far Rockaway to the western point of 
Rockaway Beach there are nine miles of ocean frontage most at- 
tractive for Summer resorts and year-round residences. 
<J From Hell Gate to Hook Creek, and from the Atlantic Ocean to 
the waters of Long Island Sound there is every lay of land suitable 
for suburban homes, the establishment of manufactories and of com- 
mercial industries. 

CJ The terminal yard of the Pennsylvania Railroad at Sunnyside, 
embracing 1 73 acres, has called for the employment of more than 
1,500 men who need homes in that vicinity. 

tj For places to live, for those whose daily duties are in Manhattan, 
for places to manufacture, for distribution to all markets, and for 
places to establish depots for trade with all the world, Queens af- 
fords surpassing advantages. For suburban homes there is every 
choice, from the outlook on the bays, Sound and East River on the 
north, to the ocean beach on the south, with hills and level places 
between, where developments to suit all classes of persons are con- 
tinually progressing; and all are 

Reached by the Long Island Railroad in 
from ten to forty minutes 

<]| For daily travel, commutation tickets are furnished at a cost little 
more than that of daily travel by street car lines 



Chamber of Commerce of the Borough of Queens. 



New York Title Insurance Company 

(FORMERLY THE TITLE INSURANCE COMPANY OF NEW YORK) 

CAPITAL AND SURPLUS, $3,000,000 

The largest Title Insurance Company in the State of 
New York doing a purely title insurance business. 

We examine titles and make searches in all the Boroughs 
of Greater New York and in the counties of Nassau, 
Suffolk, Westchester and Erie, including the City of 
Buffalo, and adjoining counties, at schedule rates. Titles 
examined throughout the State on special contract. 

Money loaned on bond and mortgage. 

NEW YORK OFFICE BROOKLYN OFFICE 

J 35 Broadway 203 Montague Street 



ARE YOU BUILDING "> 

OR DO YOU INTEND TO BUILD ♦ 



HAVE YOU PROCURED YOUR LOAN? 

WE make Building and Permanent Loans 
on First Mortgage on any desirable prop- 
erty in Queens County. Let us advise 
you, without cost to you, about placing your loan. 



FIRST MORTGAGE GUARANTEE COMPANY 

BRIDGE PLAZA NORTH LONG ISLAND CITY 



Chamber of Commerce of the Borough of Oueens. 



POWER 



WHAT A WORLD OF MEANING 
IN THAT WORD ! 

EACH INDIVIDUAL HAS IT, YET FEW KNOW 
HOW TO CONSERVE IT TO USE IT! 

Manufacturers must have it-must generate and properly 
distribute it. Few, however, conserve or use it properly. 

ELECTRIC POWER 

makes such conservation possible, and the manufac- 
turers of Queens realize it more and more each day. 

Why? 

BECAUSE 




THE POINT 

Move to Queens and lake advantage of the lowest power ratts 
of any Atlantic Seaboard City. Write Dept. " D." 



New York and Queens Electric Light and Power Co* 

444 JACKSON AVENUE 

LONG ISLAND CITY, N. Y. 



Chamber of Commerce of the Borough of Queens. 

WHEELER BROTHERS 

Are the Pioneers in Queens Borough Realty 



£T\ WE HAVE, THEREFORE, THE BEST 
\\\ THINGS TO OFFER. LARGE OR 
^ SMALL PLOTS. A FEW CHOICE 
INTEREST BEARING INVESTMENTS, 
ALL OF THE HIGHEST GRADE. 



16 Court Street :: Borough of Brooklyn, N. Y. 

Opposite R. R. Depot at Queens, New York 



JSeecbburet 



©n the 
Sounfc 

Long Island's Handsomest and Most Perfect Residential Section. 



Only 23 minutes from 33rd Street, New York. 
Direct electric service, without change of cars. 
Every modern convenience — gas, water, electric- 
ity, sewers, macadamized roads, stores, schools, 
churches. In summer — boating, bathing, fishing. 
In winter — coasting and sleighing. Plots of all 
sizes, also handsome homes now ready, 

ON LIBERAL MONTHLY PAYMENTS. 

Shore Acres Realty Company 

243 West 34th Street 395 Bridge Street 

New York Brooklyn, N. Y. 

Telephone, 1760 Greeley Telephone, 7581 Main. 



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orestHill 



CWELVE minutes from Pennsyl- 
vania Station, Thirty-third Street 
and Seventh Avenue, New York 
City, fifty - two trains daily. 
Situated in high rolling country with every 
city improvement installed. Houses fifty- 
nine hundred to seventeen thousand dol- 
lars. Sold on easy terms. Houses con- 
structed in best possible manner and all 
complete in every detail. 

OFFICES 

Qkri Mtmx Stfwlnpmntt Gin. 

02 Uilliam ^trtrt. fflmtliattan 

Srlrphnnr 1SBD John 

jfarrst Sjills. Snrnugb, of Qpitmis, £. 3J. 

iErlrplimir 125D iforrBi S?ill8 



Chamber of Commerce of the Borough of Queens. 



Queens County Trust Company 

JAMAICA ; 



LONG ISLAND CITY 



CONDUCTS JA GENERAL BANKING;|AND TRUST ^BUSINESS 

AND JOFFERS] EVERYKADVANTAGEffJTOJJ.ITS CUSTOMERS 

[CONSISTENTIWITHISOUND BANKING 

CHECKING ACCOUNTS may be opened by any reputable 
person, their funds being: subject to order or demand. 

SAVINGS ACCOUNTS— Interest paid on Savings Accounts at 
the rate of three per cent, per annum. 

BANKING BY MAIL— We make a specialty of this department. 
It is easy to do your banking business without visiting- the 
bank at all. Call in and let us explain the way it is done. 

Whatever a bank can do, we can do as well or better and also act as 
GUARDIAN, TRUSTEE, EXECUTOR, ADMINISTRATOR, OR REGISTRAR 

SAFE DEPOSIT BOXES FOR RENT AT A NOMINAL FEE PER ANNUM 



THE 

Bank of Long Island 

THE HOME BANK OF THE BOROUGH 
WITH RESOURCES OF $7,000,000 

JAMAICA FAR ROCKAWAY 
FLUSHING 
ROCKAWAY BEACH 
SEA SIDE ELMHURST 

RICHMOND HILL 

LONG ISLAND CITY 

COLLEGE POINT 

Progressive— Accommodating— Safe 

DIRECTORS L__ ' 

lohn Adikes, Jamaica, N. Y. C. _J! 
Stephen Baker, New York 
Charles Crabbe, Rockaway Beach 
H. L. Crandell, Vice-President 
Jos. Dykes. Vice-President 
W. W. Gillen, Jamaica 
Eugene D. Hawkins, New York 
Pierre Jay, New York 
G. Howland Leavitt, Flushing, N. Y. 
V. Everit Macy, New York 

Hon. Wm. G. Miller. Freeport, N. Y. 
Henry A. Monfort, Jamaica, N. Y. 
Fred'k P. Morris, Long Island City 
Andrew McTigue.Far Rockaway 
Newman J. Pettit, Lawrence, N. Y. 
Samuel R. Smith. President 
Valentine W. Smith, Vice-President 
D. L. Starks. Far Rockaway. N. Y. 
Thos. F. Tuohy, Flushing, N. Y. 
A. J. Van Siclen, Jamaica, N. Y. 
Dr. P. M. Wood, Jamaica, N. Y. 
Chas. A. Willets, Flushing. N. Y. 



The 

FirSt National Bank 

of Corona, N. Y. 

CAPITAL - - $100,000 
SURPLUS (Earned) - 40,000 
DEPOSITS - - 500,000 

PRESIDENT - W. J. HAMILTON 

VICE-PRESIDENTS 
C. W. Copp Henry S. Johnston 

CASHIER 
Obadiah G. Alexander 

DIRECTORS 



O. G. Alexander 
H. Blackwell 
M. E. Connolly 
C. W. Copp 
A. G. Dimmerling 
J. D. Dillingham 
G. B. Voorhees 



Louis Gallucci 

W. J. Hamilton 

J. L. M. Hathaway 

H. S. Johnston 

R. G.Lake 

A. Livingston 

G.J.Talleur 



Chamber of Commerce of the Borough of Queens. 

QUEENSBORO 
TERMINAL 

13th and 14th Streets and East River 
Long Island City, Borough of Queens, New York 

WILL BE OPEN FOR THE RECEIPT AND DELIVERY 
OF FREIGHT DURING THE COMING YEAR 

This property is directly on Vernon Avenue, and only one block from Nott 
Avenue— which leads to the Queensboro Bridge Plaza and to the roads leading 
out onto Long Island. 

The Long Island Railroad Ferries to 34th Street, New York, are only eight 
blocks away. 

Its conveniences and facilities will be similar to those of our present Freight 
Terminal in Brooklyn Eastern District, which has been in operation since 1876, 
and which to-day handles annually over 1,500,000 tons of freight. 

At this Terminal, Freight will be received and delivered via the following : 

RAIL LINES: COASTWISE LINES: 

New York Central & Hudson River R. R. Old Dominion Steamship Co. 

West Shore Railroad. < >cean Steamship Company of Saw 

Erie Railroad. Clyde Steamship Company. 

Delaware Lackawanna & Western R. R. Mallory Steamship Company. 

Lehigh Valley Railroad. Southern Pacific Company (Morgan 
Central R. R. of New Jersey. Line.) 

Philadelphia & Reading R. R. 
Baltimore & I (hio R. R. 

Central Vermont Railway Co. ttt-t^c/-,x- i-wi-r^r, t tx-t-c 

New York. New Haven & Hartford R. R. HUDSON RI\ LR LINES: 

rrwr- tct i;wr> cy-»tt^'t-» ttvcc People's Line for Albany. 

LONG ISLAND SOUND LINES: Citizen's Line for Troy. 

Metropolitan S. S. Company. Murray's Line 

Maine Steamship Company. Manhattan Navigation Co. 

These lines, with their connections, include every railroad in the United States, 
Canada, and Mexico. 

Arrangements with these lines will be such that shipments delivered to us 
before closing time each day will be forwarded via the Fast Freight Trains or 
Steamers of the respective lines, with the same despatch that is given freight 
from their own piers and stations in New York City. 

Freight rates to all points, with a very few exceptions, are identically the 
same as from New York. 

By shipping at the Qiieensbnro Terminal the necessity of carting freight to 
EACH of the individual Rail and Steamship Lines is avoided, as we furnish the 
same Despatch, Service, and Freight Rates. YOU WILL SAVE CARTAGE. 

We respectfully solicit your SupporLand Patronage. 

BROOKLYN EASTERN DISTRICT TERMINAL 

MAIN OFFICE, 129 FRONT STREET, NEW YORK CITY 



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Chamber of Commerce of the Borough of Queens. 



IF YOU WANT TO PROFIT from the construction of THE GREAT- 
EST RAPID TRANSIT SYSTEM IN THE WORLD, investigate 

Norwood 

which will have a five-cent fare over every foot of the dual subway 
system in Greater New York, with four hundred and eighty- 
six miles of track, costing three hundred and fourteen million 
dollars. This will give Norwood better rapid transit facilities 

than any part of the Bronx, Brooklyn, or Manhattan north of 59th Street. 

Norwood is directly opposite East 81st 
Street, Manha ttan, and has two miles street 
frontage in the heart of Long Island City 

IT IS NEARER to the business center of Manhattan than Harlem, and will be only 
FIFTEEN MINUTES from 34th Street by both the INTERBOROUGH and B. R. T. 
SUBWAY AND ELEVATED TRAINS. 

Send for Maps and Prices 

ISirkert-Jmlay Eralty (Eo. 

45 West 34lh Street 



NEW YORK and EAST RIVER 
FERRY COMPANY 




From Foot of Fulton Ave., Long Island City 

TO 

East 92d St., New York City 



Chamber of Commerce of tfie Borough of Queens. 

tKral&d States 
Company 

SUCCESSOR TO THE 
JOHN W. RAPP AND J. F. BLANCHARD COMPANIES 



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MANUFACTURER OF 

Hollow Metal and Metal-Covered Doors, Windows and Trim. 

Standard Underwriter Doors and Windows. 

Bryan Sectional Folding Doors. 

Cold-Rolled Steel, Brass and Bronze Moldings. 

Metal-and-Glass Office Partitions. 

"Superior" Store Fronts in Brass, Bronze and Copper. 

Pressed-Steel Stair Risers. 

Architectural and Art Bronze 

CATALOGS AND DETAILED INFORMATION FURNISHED UPON REQUEST 



GENERAL OFFICES AND SHOW-ROOMS 

203-205 West Fortieth Street, New York City 



FACTORY. COLLEGE POINT. N. Y. 



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Chamber of Commerce of the Borough of Queens. 

KEINER -WILLIAMS STAMPING CO. 

RICHMOND HILL, NEW YORK 



TINNING OF 
MALLEABLE 
CASTINGS, 
WROUGHT IRON 
AND STEEL 




ICE CREAM CANS 

MILK CANS 

SODA TANKS 

SHIPPING DRUMS 

AUTOMOBILE TANKS 



Sheet Metal Press and Bench Work Our Specialty 

CHASE, ROBERTS and CO. 

VARNISH MANUFACTURERS 

LONG ISLAND CITY 

N. Y. 



Courtney Development 
Company 

600 LOTS 

Right on the very crown of Thom- 
son Hill fronting Queens Boule- 
vard; every up-to-date improve- 
ment including sewer, water, gas, 
electricity, concrete sidewalks and 
curbs, brick gutters and macadam- 
ized streets. Will sell at reason- 
able prices and on easy terms. 

New trolley from 59th Street, Manhattan, 
now being laid on Queens Boulevard, in 
front of these lots. 

New Dual Subway System to have station 
in front of these lots, on Queens Boulevard. 
Time to Herald Square, eight minutes; five- 
cent fare to any part of Greater New York. 

BRYAN L. KENNELLY 

156 BROADWAY 
NEW YORK CITY 

OR YOUR OWN BROKER 



GEO.EPAYNTAR'SSON 

W. ELMER PAYNTAR 

REAL ESTATE 

AND 

INSURANCE 

171 HUNTER AVENUE 

Queensboro Bridge Plaza 
Borough of Queens 

NEW YORK CITY 

Td. 1127 Astoria 



Chamber of Commerce of the Borough of Oueens. 



STEINWAY 

XF you concur in every argument 
for the Steinway, and hesitate at 
the price, remember that it is 
the higher cost that makes all Steinway 
attributes possible. 

UPRIGHTS, from $550 UP; GRANDS, from $750 UP 
Also Pianos For Rent 

STEINWAY c& SONS 

STEINWAY HALL 

107 and 109 East 14th St., New York 

Subway Express Station at the Door 



MOLLENHAUER BRAND 

EXTRA FINE GRANULATED SUGAR 



Put up in 



2, 3V 2 , 5, 10, 25 and 100-Ib. BAGS 
2, 3V2 and 5-lb. PAPER CARTONS 

WEIGHT AND PURITY GUARANTEED 

Manufacturers of the Highest Grades of 

REFINED SUGARS 

The National Sugar Refining Co. of New Jersey 

ONE TWENTY-NINE FRONT STREET, NEW YORK CITY 



Chamber of Commerce of the Borough of Queens. 



TITLES EXAMINED and INSURED 

Loans Made on BROOKLYN AND 
LONG ISLAND REAL ESTATE 

MORTGAGES SOLD WITH OR WITH- 
OUT GUARANTEE OF PAYMENT 

H OTVf E TITLE 
IlsyCJRAlVCE C? 

•^ ^NEW YORK 

MAIN OFFICE: JAMAICA OFFICE: 

383 Jay Street, Cor. Willoughby POST OFFICE BUILDING 
BROOKLYN, N.Y. JAMAICA, L. I. 



IBusiness Established 1855 



J.&T.ADIKES 



Wholesale Grocers 



AND DIRECT RECEIVERS 

Flour, Hay, Grain, and Feed 

FULL LINE 

Poultry Supplies and Remedies 



GRAIN ELEVATORS AND STORES 

JAMAICA — a N d — FLUSHING 



Fred Adee Company 

Established J866 

SANITARY 
SPECIALTIES 

— AND — 



PLUMBER'S 
SUPPLIES 



39-41 New York Ave, 

JAMAICA, N. Y. 



3-5-7 Cliff Street 

NEW YORK 



Chamber of Commerce of the Borough of Oueens. 



Water Supply 
Sewerage 
Garbage Disposal 



Property Development 

Surveys 

Architect Associated 



LEONARD C. L. SMITH 

M. AM. SOC. C. E. 

Consulting Engineer 

SUITE 206 

QUEENS PLAZA COURT BUILDING 

LONG ISLAND CITY, N. Y. 

Plans and Specifications. Reports. Evaluations 



Established 1859 



Telephone 468-W W'msb'g 



RICHARD A. HOMEYER 

JOHN SUTTER'S 

Granite and Marble Works 

JOHN F. HOMEYER. Manager 

Monuments, Vaults, Headstones, 

Lots Inclosed, etc. 

Opposite Lutheran Cemetery Office 

1840 METROPOLITAN AVE. 
MIDDLE VILLAGE LONG ISLAND 



Queens County Ice 
Manufacturing Co. 

S. N. DECKER, Pres. 
FAR ROCKAWAY, N. Y. 

HYGEIA ICE 

MADE FROM 

CONDENSED AND 
DISTILLED WATER 



PROMPT ATTENTION TO 
ALL ORDERS 

TELEPHONE No. 595 



<I We Guarantee Our Ice 
Free From Disease Germs 



A CHEAPER WAY OF BUILDING! 

Reinforced Concrete Poured in STEEL FORMS 




Tha lumber and labor 
waste cut out. Com- 
pare the forms here 
shown (which havt 
been used over a hun- 
dred times) with the 
wooden forms, used 
but once. 

These steel forms have 
been successfully used 
on hundreds of build- 
ings, from coast to 
coait. 

A cardiwill bring cata- 
logue of steel forms 
for houses, lofts, fac- 
tory buildings, show- 
ing attractive plans 
of poured houses. IF 
YOU HAVE BUILD- 
INGS TO ERECT, IT 
WILL PAY YOU TO 
INVESTIGATE. 



NOTE THE STEEL FORMS AND SWING-UP. (Forty Buildings. D. L. •&, W. R. R 



READ & MORRILL, Inc., 179 Joralemon St., Brooklyn, N. Y. 

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NEAR BOROUGH HALL 



Chamber of Commerce of the Borough of Queens. 



METROPOLITAN 
DREDGING 
COMPANY 



SUCTION DREDGING. 

CHANNEL WORK and RECLAMATION 
of MARSH LANDS. 



115 BROADWAY 

New York City 




JOHN W. PETRY CO. 

PLUMBING 

and 

HEATING 

Done Anywhere and Done Right. 

62 JACKSON AVENUE 
L. I. CITY 

Branches at Rockville Center and Cedarhurst. L. I. 



Compliments of 

The 

Palmer & Singer 
Mfg. Co. 

Manufacturers of 

High Grade 
Six Cylinder 
Automobiles 



6-45 
$2000.00 



6-60 
$3000.00 



Factory: 
Second and Webster Avenues, 

Long Island City 

Show Rooms: 
1620-22-24 Broadway, New York City 



TELEPHONE 644 NEWTOWN 

PAUL ROTH 

Sheet Metal Contractor 

CORNICES, SKYLIGHTS, ROOFING 
METAL CEILINGS and SIDEWALLS 




HEATING AND VENTILATING 

16 WEST JACKSON AVENUE 
Near DeWitt Street CORONA, N. Y. 



Chamber of Commerce of the Borough of Queens. 



FROHLING & SAXELBYE 

ARCHITECTS 

No. 114 East 28th Street 

New York 



ESTABLISHED 189S 



F.W.SCUTT&CO. 

Queens Borough 

Real Estate 

INVESTMENTS 
APPRAISALS 



336 FULTON STREET 
JAMAICA, N. Y. 



HALLERAN AGENCY 

FLUSHING, N. Y. 



Expert 
Appraisers 

of 

Real Estate 

in the 

Borough of Queens 



Public Improvements 

Some are excellent ami timely . 

Some are good but premature. 
Some are extravagant and ill-advised. 

The essential thing, however, is that 
the property owner should be fully advised 
of every step in a public improvement 
proceeding, from its initiation to its con- 
firmation by the Board of Assessors or the 
Supreme Court. The 

Realty Notice Corporation 

51 CHAMBERS STREET, NEW YORK 

gives this notice to property owners, and, 
in addition, sends its inspectors each day 
to the city departments to learn of any 
contemplated official act whose effect 
would be to impose a tax or lien on your 
property. Compares your assessments, 
verifies your tax bills, and takes charge of all 
the relations between the property owner 
and the municipality. The fee is small. 

OFFICERS 

President. Joseph P. Day 

First Vice-President, tdward P. Doyle 
Vice-President, Walter Lindner 

Vice-President. William H. Williams 
Secretary, Joseph O. Hammitl 
Treasurer. Laurence B. Halleran 



Chamber of Commerce of the Borough of Queens. 



THE 

T. A. GILLESPIE 
COMPANY 



ENGINEERS AND 
CONTRACTORS 



MANUFACTURERS OF 

LOCK BAR AND 

RIVETED STEEL PIPE 



50 CHURCH STREET 
NEW YORK 



Uft)t £ong Manb City 
fairings $anfe 

having removed its banking 
rooms to the corner of 

Queenboro Bridge Plaza 
and Academy Street 

is pleased to announce that 
the new location better 
accommodates the greatest 
number of its 18,441 depos- 
itors. Business has increased 
and every effort will be em- 
ployed to satisfy and please 
its patrons. 

Bank open daily, except Saturdays, from 
9 A.M. to 3 P.M. Saturdays, from 9 A.M. 
to 12 M. Monday evenings, from 5 to 8. 

ASSETS. $6,701,651 

DUE DEPOSITORS. $6,054,216 

SURPLUS. $647. 4j5 



QUEENS -COURT 

Queens, L. I., New York City 
28 MINUTES FROM BROADWAY 

Three Minutes From Queens Express Station, Long Island- Pennsylvania 
Electric System. One Hundred Trains Daily. 

SEMI BUNGALOWS 



Built on Merit Moderate Priced 

Every City Convenience Planned to Your Order 



Construction Guaranteed 
Best of Materials 



A RESIDENTIAL RESTRICTED PARK. Ideal Social Surroundings, 
Churches, Schools, Libraries, Artesian Water, Gas, Electricity, Tennis 
Courts. Built and Sold on Easy Terms. 

Write or Phone 3876 CORTLANDT. For Full Detailed Information 

QUEENS-COURT REALTY CO. 

J. MEAD BRIGGS, President 
200 BROADWAY NEW YORK CITY 



Chamber of Commerce of the Borough of Queens. 



BUILDING CONSTRUCTION FACTORY BUILDINGS 

MANUFACTURING SITES WAREHOUSES 



J.A.WIGMORE, WILLIAM S. HAWK J. HOWARD RUST 

President Vice-President Secty. and Treas. 

duties Jkaltp & terminal Company 

516 Jftftt) gtoenue 

DIRECTORS 

M. J. DEGNON WILLIAM S. HAWK 

E. MORA DAVISON MORGAN J. O'BRIEN 

H. V. R. KENNEDY SI R Wl LLI AM VAN HORN E 

MYRON T. HERRICK PARMELY W. HERRICK 

J. G. SCHMIDLAPP FRANCIS F PRENTISS 

JAMES PARMELEE W. R. WARNER 

CLAYTON S. GOSS J.A.WIGMORE 



VISIT the most rapidly developing section of Greater New 
York and see some of our attractive residences and fac- 
tory sites. Transportation and shipping facilities ideal. 
A little time spent in investigating this section will be time 
well spent. Our office is at your service 



GEORGE J. RYAN 

Real Estate, Mortgage Loans, and Insurance 

46 JACKSON AVENUE (Near 4th Street) 

LONG ISLAND CITY, N. Y. 



APPRAISER OF REAL ESTATE Telephones, 3451 and 3452 Hunters Point 



Chamber of Commerce of the Borough of Queens. 



Telephones ( ig«? ( Hunters Point 



Roscoe Lumber Co. 

West Avenue and 
Newtown Creek 

LONG ISLAND CITY, N. Y. 



64 BRADFORD AVENUE 
FLUSHING, N. Y. 

Telephone 402 Flushing 



Telephone, 978 Astoria 

WM. S. HECK C& CO. 

QUEENS COURT BUILDING 

BRIDGE PLAZA 
LONG ISLAND CITY, N. Y. 



REAL ESTATE FOR SALE. EXCHANGED. 
OR FOR LEASE 



JAMES AND HAWKINS 

JAMAICA, HEMPSTEAD AND 
ROCKVILLE CENTRE, N. Y. 

JAMES AND HAWKINS CO. 

GLEN COVE, N. Y. 

Everything in Hardware 
Everything in Paint 



North Shore Water Front 
a Specialty 



Thomas J* Smith 

321 13th STREET 
COLLEGE POINT 

OR 

110 WEST 34th STREET 
NEW YORK 

Telephones— Greeley 5620— Flushing 348 

Residential plots and factory 
sites in large or small parcels 



JUMP 

HOUSE WRECKING 

COMPANY 

(Incorporated ) 

NEW YORK 

We Carry a Full Line of 
Second -Hand Building 
Materials, Plumbing, 
Heating, and Lighting 
Fixtures. Get our prices 
before buying elsewhere. 

LONG ISLAND CITY OFFICE 

Borden and East Avenues 

Telephone. Hunters Point 3750 



Chamber of Commerce of the Borough of Oueens. 



STEEL When You Want It 



Now is the time to select your spring shapes. 

We have the largest assortment in New 
York City. 



All Sizes. 



All Weights 



All Colors 



NATIONAL BRIDGE WORKS 

LONG ISLAND CITY 




C. A. WILLEY COMPANY 

MANUFACTURERS OF 

Coach, Automobile, and Car Paints. Colors, Varnishes, Etc. 

NOTT AND VERNON AVENUES 
HUNTER'S POINT. NEW YORK CITY 

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Chamber of Commerce of the Borough of Queens. 



15 MINUTES FROM PENNSYLVANIA STATION 

The most attractive section 
of the restricted residential park 
of 400 acres, extending from 
Richmond Hill station over the 
hills to Kew station, with up- 
wards of 100 trains daily. 

Its natural beauty, artistic 
development, and location on the 
summit of Long Island, looking 
over Forest Hills to the Sound on the north, and Richmond Hill to the sea 
on the South, its frontage of a mile on Forest Park, and the fact that it 
enjoys all the comforts of the established community of Richmond Hill, 
with its churches, schools, clubs and social activities, ensures permanence 
as a social center, and rapid increase of land values. Plots and attractive 
new houses are offered at moderate prices and on convenient terms, to 
acceptable purchasers only. 

KEW GARDENS CORPORATION 
Telephone, Greeley 5250 Marbridge Building 34th Street and Broadway 




ESTABLISHED 1879 



William P. Rae Company 

(Brooklyn) Real Estate (Queens) 



BROKERS 



APPRAISERS 



AUCTIONEERS 



MAIN OFFICE: 

180 MONTAGUE STREET, BROOKLYN 



BRANCH OFFICES: 

Jamaica Office : Hillside Avenue, corner Grand Avenue 

Sea Gate Office : Surf Avenue and West Thirty-seventh Street, Coney Island 

Uptown Office : 400 Nostrand Avenue, corner Gates Avenue 



Chamber of Commerce of the Borough of Queens. 



Eagle Warehouse and Storage Co. 

28 to 44 FULTON STREET, BROOKLYN 

TELEPHONE 5560 MAIN 

Absolutely Fireproof Warehouse Building for the Storage of 
Household Effects and Valuables 



WE ARE ALWAYS MOVING 



WITH 



ELECTRIC AND GASOLINE VANS 




PACKING FOR SHIPMENT 



CARPETS CLEANED AND STORED 



Setii. L. Keeney 
Presid&n t 



Andrew D. Baird 
Daniel J. Creem 

Robert Furey 
William Hester 



OFFICERS 

John E. Cassidy 
Vice-Presidt nt. 

DIRECTORS 

T. M. Lloyd 

J. II. Hallock 

John E. Cassidy 

.In, iax D. Fairchild 

Herbert F. Gunnison 



Herbert F. Gunnison 
Secretary-Treasurer 



Seth L. Keenet 

John McNameb 

William M. Van Axden 

E. Le Grand Beers 



G. L. STUEBNER, IRON WORKS 

TWELFTH STREET AND VERNON AVENUE 
LONG ISLAND CITY, NEW YORK, N. Y. 

Manufacture and carry in stock for quick 
shipment Self-Dumping and Self-Righting 
Buckets for handling Coal, Ores, Stone, 
Sand, etc. Also the well-known "Excel- 
sior" and Controllable Bottom-Dumping 
Concrete Buckets and Industrial Cars. 

SEND FOR CATALOGUE 




Controllable Bottom 

Dump Concrete Bucket 

(Patented I 




Self-Dumping and Self- 
Righting Turnover Bucket 



A. M. RYON 

Coal, Wood and Mason's Materials 
Artificial Stone 

Telephones. 37 Flushing and 5 Astoria 



Principal Office, 96 Main St.. Flushing 

Yard. 13 and 15 Lawrence St. 

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